Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #1923 –
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So no chance someone identified the virus and then tried to weaponise it and stuffed up?
Of course it's possible, but you have to play the percentages to be taken seriously, it's far more likely or perhaps even inevitable given it's happened before that you'd end up with a disease like this naturally than engineered and released by an accident.
China's primary guilt in this issue is wilful negligence, we shouldn't let them avoid that responsibility by focussing on a spy fantasy. Xi wants western media to spend all it's time on conspiracy theories while they continue to build artificial islands in the sea and claim foreign soils as their own.
Generally the cloak and dagger stuff is way over-stated, Occam's razor should be applied.
I underwent NBC warfare training when I was a young bloke and I can’t really see how COVID could be effective for military purposes. Yes, it would over-extend ICUs, but it would do so indiscriminately and only as long as as there wasn’t a vaccine.
There are so many more effective ways to gain a military advantage that it’s hard to see why anyone would bother trying to manipulate a virus.
Yes, a weapon is next to useless if when you pull the trigger it's a 50/50 outcome on it exploding in your face!