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"creating bioweapons that kill only non-Chinese people"? I've never heard of this before...

• generj 5y ago
  How would that even work? There isn’t a gene for Chinese citizenship that would impact any disease or illness. …I’m unfortunately assuming the poster is making a bad-faith reference to COVID-19. Some conspiracy theorists have been labeling it a bio weapon and ignoring the deaths from the initial outbreak.
  • vaxman 5y ago
    > How would that even work? https://youtu.be/g1L3spfQZc4 https://youtu.be/g1L3spfQZc4
  • deafsquid69 5y ago
    It's not a new concept https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
  • CRConrad 5y ago
    No, AFAICR this predates SARS-CoV-19. And it works by targeting ethnicity, not citizenship. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29632621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29632621
• CRConrad 5y ago
  I have. Different ethnic groups carry different genes. You know how you sometimes see headlines like "DNA of 2,000-year-old corpse in the Himalayas analysed; he turns out to be Greek"? So apparently some ethnicities have some genes that others don't; otherwise they couldn't know that. Make a bioweapon that targets people with genes that your ethnic group doesn't have, and you've made a bioweapon that targets only people of other ethnic groups.