Ridiculous. 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 potenti

Ridiculous. 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.