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Many countries and regions, where 30 years ago biotechnology merely meant brewing beer and baking bread, have established high-tech facilities for vaccine or single-cell-protein production that could be subverted for the production of biological weapons. Today, nearly all countries have the technological potential to produce large amounts of pathogenic microorganisms safely (Fig. 1). Second, classical biowarfare agents can be made much more efficiently than their natural counterparts, with even the simplest genetic techniques. Third, with modern biotechnology it becomes possible to create completely new biological weapons. And for technical and/or moral reasons, they might be more likely to be used than classical biowarfare agents. These possibilities have generated new military desires around the world, including within those countries that have publicly renounced biological weapons in the past. This paper deals predominantly with the last two factors, and with the use of real-life examples, we shall discuss the possibilities for such military abuse of biotechnology.
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originally posted by: Irishhaf
As expected but the US, but the UK... assuming the story is correct.
every major player in the last 50 years has worked on bioweapons, here is the question which country either intentionally or accidently released a pathogen that wrecked the worlds economy...
...some of them can cause SARS disease in humanized mice models and are untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals and you can’t vaccinate against them with a vaccine. So, these are a clear and present danger…
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Irishhaf
As expected but the US, but the UK... assuming the story is correct.
every major player in the last 50 years has worked on bioweapons, here is the question which country either intentionally or accidently released a pathogen that wrecked the worlds economy...
Covid simply isn't effective enough to be a bio-weapon. It mostly attacks the elderly, the over weight and people with diabetes. The people who are least economically active and who aren't known for their part in warfare.
It's just not credible as a weapon.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Irishhaf
As expected but the US, but the UK... assuming the story is correct.
every major player in the last 50 years has worked on bioweapons, here is the question which country either intentionally or accidently released a pathogen that wrecked the worlds economy...
Covid simply isn't effective enough to be a bio-weapon. It mostly attacks the elderly, the over weight and people with diabetes. The people who are least economically active and who aren't known for their part in warfare.
It's just not credible as a weapon.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Irishhaf
As expected but the US, but the UK... assuming the story is correct.
every major player in the last 50 years has worked on bioweapons, here is the question which country either intentionally or accidently released a pathogen that wrecked the worlds economy...
Covid simply isn't effective enough to be a bio-weapon. It mostly attacks the elderly, the over weight and people with diabetes. The people who are least economically active and who aren't known for their part in warfare.
It's just not credible as a weapon.
originally posted by: lostbook
This is alarming news. If we're hearing about this then there must be something even worse that the public isn't privy to...
originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: infolurker
I remember a simpler time when Hillary Clinton with her vast experience assured us Trump is wrong about China and that Russia is in fact the bigger threat.
What a glorious time that was for intellectuals and sensitive, nuanced souls.