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Boston University creates new Covid strain
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI could easily see an authoritarian country like NK doing something like this as a weapon of last resort to be used like nukes but obtained much more easily .
- dham 4y agoBut why Covid? There are a bunch of viruses that are better that they've probably already weaponized. Weaponizing Covid is like using a balloon for an artillery round.
- cheaprentalyeti 4y agoBecause we helped make the weapon and have helpfully provided our fingerprints so that if someone else uses it we look guilty. If someone else releases something that looks like this variant the world now has a casus belli against us. (that is, those that don't already for our role in the original virus).
- 71a54xd 4y ago
- cheaprentalyeti 4y agoIt has to be disinformation, as I know Fauci told Congress that we did not and are not doing gain of function.
- belter 4y agohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1....
- hitpointdrew 4y agoWhat the fuck. We need to outlaw gain of function and pressure every other country to do the same. This absolutely beyond reckless.