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The problem with artificial selections on virus like SARS-COV-2 is that human do selection much less efficient than our mother nature. Virus that is already spr
by beaunative 7y ago
The problem with artificial selections on virus like SARS-COV-2 is that human do selection much less efficient than our mother nature. Virus that is already spreading in the nature is of far larger quantity than any lab or labs could ever possible achieve. That is, if a natural mutation is going to happen in the lab, it could almsot always be said it has already happened in the nature.
On the other hand, unless they are experimenting with humans, current technology simply doesn't allow us to produce a virus that is not fatal to many other animals but human.
It is not really a viable theory, unless the ground is that the Chinese biologist are way ahead of us in understanding the DNA, which is quite frankly extremely unlikely as a tiny bit of that would be a nature-worthy paper.