Not even remotely related to the topic of this blog.

I would dispute that, especially given that the whole point of your post was to use disease transmission as a non-political proxy to discussions of information security. I would agree that a few people wandered farther off topic into what can only be described as misinformation campaigns (though, again, even that is part of the immediate topic), but I would argue that they were sufficiently balanced by responses that aimed to steer the discussion back to questions of pandemics and general security. For example, it seems entirely topical to discuss if a quantity/severity of a security breach is sufficient to warrant a particular counter-response. That's one of the crossover issues I hope you expected to highlight in raising the topic. It doesn't make sense to me to then cull that discussion. 21538d674795ae3dd828061321ec6fa7e11cf04664178d6ec4b0ab4aefa820fe