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And there seems to be a lot of traditional sabotage using infectious agents in farming, like how triads were infecting pig farms with African swine fever in 201
by downrightmike 4y ago
And there seems to be a lot of traditional sabotage using infectious agents in farming, like how triads were infecting pig farms with African swine fever in 2019 (1). Maybe they didn't just use African Swine fever and thought they found something better. There was an explosion of pig farming this century(2), and underhanded tactics should be suspected. (1) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3042122/chi https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3042122/chi... (2) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca16b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca16b
- bayesian_horse 4y agoRidiculous. First of all, those triads would be stupid, if they had done that with Sars-CoV-2, knowing it will hit them, too and wreck all their earning potential. Secondly, bioterrorism (or whatever you want to call this) using a pandemical Virus is really hard. You have to find a virus that is able to cause a pandemic, and they are really really rare, but never did so (otherwise it can't do that because of the immunity). Sars-Cov-2 was only so dangerous because it was novel. So those triads would have found this needle in a haystack, and they aren't exactly known for running world-class virus finding operations. It's easy to find and smuggle some infectious ASV material. Maybe slightly harder to do so for EBV or the like. Much harder to find a completely novel virus.