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> It's quite hard to destroy the human world with nukes what about bio weapons? smallpox in the americas, for an example of many at the page below. https://e
by jjtheblunt 8mo ago
> It's quite hard to destroy the human world with nukes
what about bio weapons? smallpox in the americas, for an example of many at the page below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Depopulation_by_Old_World_diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...
- kgermino 8mo agoIsn’t that their entire point?
- jjtheblunt 8mo agoyes, i think you're right that such was the point, and i misread it.
- smegger001 8mo agoSmallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers for use making vaccinations in case they are wrong about their only being a few samples controled by superpowers. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows bioweapons infect both sides and nuetral parties who are no longer neutral once you infect them. It like mustard gas but worse no one other than suicidal terror groups want them and they dont have the facilities equipment samples or knowhow.
- estearum 8mo agoThere are a lot of suicidal terror groups in the world
- jacquesm 8mo agoA good chunk of Christianity would turn around to bring about the rapture in a heartbeat if you let them. Death cults come in all shapes and sizes.
- estearum 8mo agoYep! I count sects of Christianity among those groups and you're right that there are many more just waiting for the right situation and leader to really push them into full blown eschatology.
- laughing_man 8mo ago>Smallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers... I used to believe that, too, until the Russians found a few vials in a random storage cabinet. The fact is we have no idea how many samples exist and where they all are. Fortunately, we already know how to make a smallpox vaccine.
- piperswe 8mo agoNot only that, but we have currently functioning distribution networks for pox vaccines. AIUI, the MPox vaccine is just a smallpox vaccine that happens to also work for MPox.
- XorNot 8mo agoYou mean the same smallpox that ran rampant in a world without vaccines and failed to destroy the world, and was still present while a humans fought a bunch of conventional wars?