Weaponised Corona Virus Released During Peak Travel Period?

Now, I'm not saying that's what happened....but....if I wanted to make and release an effective weaponised corona virus there are several things I would do to maximize its potential for casualties.
First of all, I would release it in the world's most populous nation. And I would release it during that nation's peak holiday travel period. I would also engineer it to mutate quickly from a virus usually transmitted from animals to humans, to one that can be transmitted directly from human to human. I would give it a long incubation period giving it's victims 14 days of good health in which to be out and about in the world coming into contact with a myriad of future victims. And it would be a new virus....one that no human has had a chance to develop an immunity to. It would also be resistant to all current antiviral medications to ensure that there is no cure readily available. And it would be easily transmitted simply by coughing or sneezing....no unprotected sex or sharing of needles necessary.
And all of these things are true of the current coronavirus outbreak.
Now, I'm not saying that there was an act of terrorism committed. But it could well have been a weaponised strain that was designed for some nefarious reason and then accidentally released.
Just sayin', is all.

Sounds like Tom Clancy's "Ranibow Six"

a reply to: MissSmartypants
Live animal market that included bats and snakes 'source of corona virus'. Was the 'real and for true' Ebola origin ever discovered? Last I knew: the first human death from Ebola came from a person that frequented a particular cave in Africa. Personally I think both have been engineered; just like the Plague (grim reaper figure seen spraying something on fields at that time), Spanish flu.

You could be right. I have several FB friends that love doom and gloom, and consequently I have blocked them, still they manage to get a message through now and again, and of course I got this one. All in all, we haven't been very good custodians and stewards of this Earth.

We wonder where past civilizations disappeared to...

Dog eat dog world...

a reply to: MissSmartypants
Since their peak travel season now extends across the world, you would be infecting the rest of the world at the same time, including yourself. Unless your ambition is to be the most successful suicide bomber in history, why would you want to do that?

originally posted by: vethumanbeing
a reply to: MissSmartypants
Live animal market that included bats and snakes 'source of corona virus'. Was the 'real and for true' Ebola origin ever discovered? Last I knew: the first human death from Ebola came from a person that frequented a particular cave in Africa. Personally I think both have been engineered; just like the Plague (grim reaper figure seen spraying something on fields at that time), Spanish flu.

Yes, there was that live animal market in Wuhan... the city where the virus originated....but there is also China's only pathogen research/storage facility capable of safely storing and handling the corona virus located in Wuhan as well.
And in a society such as China's, a technician who may have inadvertently made a mistake that allowed the virus to be released would be reluctant to come forward immediately and admit what happened.

a reply to: MissSmartypants

You would not want to release it from just one location, even if that location was a highly populated area; you would be making it too easy to locate the source of the disease.

You would want to release the pathogen from multiple locations around the world, making the source if the disease impossible to localize, isolate, quarantine, and thus control.

You would all also want the disease to have a long, preferably symptom-free, incubation period so that it’s spread is enabled by its failure to raise any alarms.

And, although you do want your disease easily transmissible between people, you do not want it capable of rapid mutation, since that could result in a less lethal version of the disease; which could even lead to an antigen capable of stopping your weapon.

originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: MissSmartypants
Since their peak travel season now extends across the world, you would be infecting the rest of the world at the same time, including yourself. Unless your ambition is to be the most successful suicide bomber in history, why would you want to do that?

Why do kids gauge their ears as big as dinner plates?? Cause they want do...

a reply to: MissSmartypants
Doom porn? Could the 2012 end of the world porn have been a setup to burn people out to the point of no one will pay attention to what is really happening?

I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

65 million out of almost 8 billion. What percentage does that work out to again?

Compare it to something like Coronary Artery Disease. Per 100k people, that one is some seriously scary numbers, yet nobody's screaming doomsday crap over it.

originally posted by: JON666
a reply to: MissSmartypants
Doom porn? Could the 2012 end of the world porn have been a setup to burn people out to the point of no one will pay attention to what is really happening?

No.

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

OK, so how many people were in the world when the Spanish Flu took its 50 million? Hint ... it was a LOT less than we have today.

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

65 million out of almost 8 billion. What percentage does that work out to again?

Compare it to something like Coronary Artery Disease. Per 100k people, that one is some seriously scary numbers, yet nobody's screaming doomsday crap over it.

0.86 %

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

65 million out of almost 8 billion. What percentage does that work out to again?

Compare it to something like Coronary Artery Disease. Per 100k people, that one is some seriously scary numbers, yet nobody's screaming doomsday crap over it.

Okay, okay ... your disease wins. Happy?

Know how many times I have heard folks predict stuff such as this in my long years ?
Know how many times it was claimed "biological warfare" on people ?
Know the percentage of failed predictions ?

originally posted by: Gothmog

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

65 million out of almost 8 billion. What percentage does that work out to again?

Compare it to something like Coronary Artery Disease. Per 100k people, that one is some seriously scary numbers, yet nobody's screaming doomsday crap over it.

0.86 %

Show your work, young man.

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Gothmog

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: MissSmartypants

originally posted by: Metallicus
I don’t fear this virus. I realize I am supposed to, but it’s not my style. If it happens it happens.

In a study that was done shortly before the outbreak started it was surmised that if the virus was released to the public it could possibly kill 65 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50 million.

Scared yet?

65 million out of almost 8 billion. What percentage does that work out to again?

Compare it to something like Coronary Artery Disease. Per 100k people, that one is some seriously scary numbers, yet nobody's screaming doomsday crap over it.

0.86 %

Show your work, young man.

Don't have to.
It is history.
And history is out there for everyone to read.
Start right here on ATS.