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I think that's wrong though. Hypothetically you could have a vaccine engineered alongside the virus and deploy it in secret, or at least using some mode of obfu
by burnafter187 5y ago
I think that's wrong though. Hypothetically you could have a vaccine engineered alongside the virus and deploy it in secret, or at least using some mode of obfuscation. Not that it would be simple, and not that it wouldn't leak, but it's not an impossible scenario to have a country immunized, I don't reckon.
I mean, look at COVID response, Russia and China both have their own vaccines, what's to prevent them from sliding in something extra to prevent another disease which has been engineered?
- smegger001 5y agoto do that you would have to start mass manufacturing a vacine a somehow administer it to the whole population secretly. without any other country getting wind of it. then you have to pray it doesn't mutate enough to make your vaccine ineffective. it is to big a project to not leak just based on everyone involved having to not tell anyone. from the researchers the administration of the program to the people working at the production facility.
- anders_p 5y ago> to do that you would have to start mass manufacturing a vacine a somehow administer it to the whole population secretly. To play devil's advocate: This could be happening _right now_. 1) Create and release CoVid. 2) Engineer a vaccine, that also protects against a secondary, 100% deadly virus. (SinoVac?) 3) Vaccinate your own population. 4) Release the super-deadly, secret 2nd virus. 5) Profit. > it is to big a project to not leak just based on everyone involved having to not tell anyone. Yeah. This where it, and most of the other grand conspiracy theories, start to become unrealistic. It would be impossible to keep the secret from coming out. But it would make a great plot for thriller novel.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoI'm reasonably certain Cussler, Clancy, or Chrichton have done subsets of this at least.