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If one would engineer a virus, surely one would make it more dangerous than this?
by _-___________-_ 7y ago
If one would engineer a virus, surely one would make it more dangerous than this?
- joshbaptiste 7y agoI thought of that too, than my tinfoil hat went further on thinking that maybe this is just a QA test, a mild version of the pathogen released to see how far it spreads to fine tune the "production" version.
- manicdee 7y agoOr to stress test various nations’ biological controls with a “safe” virus that shouldn’t backfire and destroy the creator.
- hnarn 7y agoThat's assuming, for the sake of argument, of course that a biolab creating these types of viruses for "offensive" purposes would only focus on one, extremely lethal virus and nothing else. It's easy to imagine that less lethal viruses are also created to study the effects of different modifications, and these viruses may be kept under less strict supervision than the worst ones (increasing the risk of it spreading). Anyway, there's no evidence so far to support any of these theories, but considering China's record I guess it wouldn't surprise me. For now I still think the easiest explanation is the most likely.