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This isn't a random 'lab made virus' this is a virus made by taking the specifically deadly aspects of one strain and adding the specifically infectious aspects
by achr2 4y ago
This isn't a random 'lab made virus' this is a virus made by taking the specifically deadly aspects of one strain and adding the specifically infectious aspects of another. There is a very high likelihood of it being successful, because it already is. What is unlikely are these mutations happening naturally, which is why this should never be researched in sub-BSL-4 environments.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoNone of the proteins of this Virus had been known before. Even if hypothetically the Virus would have been constructed out of Bat viruses only known to some top-secret Chinese scientists, there is no way they could have known those components to be "deadly" (to Humans). You underestimate evolution and wildly overestimate the capabilities of genome engineering.
- achr2 4y agoWe're not talking about Covid itself, but the virologists in the article building a new form of covid.