I'm all for contemplating possible but unlikely ideas. However, I think the balance of probability is that CV is not really an ideal bioweapon, and Omi, even less so.
Reading about bioweapons early last year: the general thinking seems to be that high levels of contagiousness are not desirable for a bioweapon, because you lose control of…
I'm all for contemplating possible but unlikely ideas. However, I think the balance of probability is that CV is not really an ideal bioweapon, and Omi, even less so.
Reading about bioweapons early last year: the general thinking seems to be that high levels of contagiousness are not desirable for a bioweapon, because you lose control of it too easily (it gets to infect people you didn't want to infect, and tends to lose lethality as it spreads, with natural selection favouring less lethal versions). The ideal bioweapon is something like anthrax, which is deadly but not really contagious. This lends itself to targeting people within an area, and killing most of them quickly. Of course, the downside is that it becomes obvious pretty quickly that a bioweapon is being used, and so you can expect retaliatory action.
CV is (post hoc) a great social disruptor, especially when you get to control or at least manipulate the narrative. And the jab is a great bioweapon, very clever too, rolled out all in the name of public health, but totally controllable (potentially, anyway) as to how deadly, and who gets which level of it.
Time and history will tell. We live in interesting times. I never came out and said that general Sars-Cov2 is a bioweapon, because it did not seem to be "highly likely" to be one.
With Omicron, it is "highly likely" a bioweapon based on tight directed design, extreme contagiousness that it was designed for, some evidence of disparate impact etc. A bioweapon does not necessarily aim to kill everyone (as you said also) and may have other goals in mind.
In my opinion, it would be cartoonish to think that because live vaccines on humans are considered unethical and a so-called live vaccine that kills people is actually a bioweapon and a crime. So it must be either an accident or an intentional Criminal bioweapon.
Anthrax is an obvious bio-weapon, one that has been used before. I like that Igor is thinking outside the box here...a bio-weapon like Omicron would have entirely different purposes than anthrax, that's for sure.
I'm all for contemplating possible but unlikely ideas. However, I think the balance of probability is that CV is not really an ideal bioweapon, and Omi, even less so.
Reading about bioweapons early last year: the general thinking seems to be that high levels of contagiousness are not desirable for a bioweapon, because you lose control of it too easily (it gets to infect people you didn't want to infect, and tends to lose lethality as it spreads, with natural selection favouring less lethal versions). The ideal bioweapon is something like anthrax, which is deadly but not really contagious. This lends itself to targeting people within an area, and killing most of them quickly. Of course, the downside is that it becomes obvious pretty quickly that a bioweapon is being used, and so you can expect retaliatory action.
CV is (post hoc) a great social disruptor, especially when you get to control or at least manipulate the narrative. And the jab is a great bioweapon, very clever too, rolled out all in the name of public health, but totally controllable (potentially, anyway) as to how deadly, and who gets which level of it.
Time and history will tell. We live in interesting times. I never came out and said that general Sars-Cov2 is a bioweapon, because it did not seem to be "highly likely" to be one.
With Omicron, it is "highly likely" a bioweapon based on tight directed design, extreme contagiousness that it was designed for, some evidence of disparate impact etc. A bioweapon does not necessarily aim to kill everyone (as you said also) and may have other goals in mind.
Is it possible that it could have been engineered and released by good guys trying to put a stop to this madness?
In my opinion, it would be cartoonish to think that because live vaccines on humans are considered unethical and a so-called live vaccine that kills people is actually a bioweapon and a crime. So it must be either an accident or an intentional Criminal bioweapon.
I'm not sure everybody plays by those rules. A defensive bioweapon seems thinkable enough to me, relative to everything else that's happened so far.
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Anthrax is an obvious bio-weapon, one that has been used before. I like that Igor is thinking outside the box here...a bio-weapon like Omicron would have entirely different purposes than anthrax, that's for sure.