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I keep wondering: what actually is between us and a Handmaids Tale-style mass sterilization event? If someone releases a global flu virus that also causes us to

I keep wondering: what actually is between us and a Handmaids Tale-style mass sterilization event? If someone releases a global flu virus that also causes us to bear infertile children, what would protect us? Is it just that someone would probably notice and we could inject our kids with refertilizing viruses? How does that arms race play out?

Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Is it just that someone would probably notice and we could inject our kids with refertilizing viruses? Right, or something of the sort. There would be many decades available to fix it.
ben_w 9y ago
> If someone releases a global flu virus that also causes us to bear infertile children, what would protect us? I think it’s now possible to convert any human cell into a stem cell, so we would probably make that tech cheap enough to widely deploy and then — given human nature — let poor people die childless.