Curious Aardvark
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Not at all nuts. With crispr technology, almost anyone can do genetic manipulation.
Given the sheer contagiousness and natural inclination to mutate, covid 19 is both an excellent base for a bio-engineered weapon and simultaneously one of the worst choices. Depending on your point of view of the human race, and it's current civilisation.
Now given that under the Geneva convention (stop sniggering at the back) bio warfare development is banned, obviously no country is currently using covid 19 as a base for a bioweapon. That would be illegal.
But if we go with the highly unlikely, situation that 'some' countries did still have bioweapon programs - cough ',porton down' cough - covid 19 is definitely now in the mix.
CRISPR is scary, it gives almost anyone the tools to easily produce genetically engineered organisms. If you've got enough money, anyone can setup a bioengineering lab.
And lord knows there are enough lunatic millionaires and billionaires around who have enough money.
There is a series of zombie novels based on the never identified 'lone bioengineer' principle by John Ringo, that are pretty good.
The disease is initially spread by air fresheners in airport toilets.
Given that our current pandemic was spread by millions of Chinese going back to China for new year, and then taking the disease around the world via numerous international airports, he wasn't far off course.
So, while it's unlikely covid originated in a lab, it's a dead certainty that it's being modified in a lot of labs now !
Would someone do it for something as petty as political gain ?
This is the human race we're dealing with here, so: yeah, absolutely they would.
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