Current Events > Scientists created a Superpowerful Sars 2.0 in 2015

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Scientists have been weaponizing Coronaviruses for a long time now

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so who was it for?

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MT_TRAEH posted...

so who was it for?

I'm not sure yet. Still researching

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you realize that governments have been weaponizing diseases for decades right?

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monkmith posted...

you realize that governments have been weaponizing diseases for decades right?

Yes Ive spoken a lot about it

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Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

Yes Ive spoken a lot about it

oh yes i see, i've got you tagged as an anti-vaxer...

my point isn't that they made the virus and released it, but that every major country makes these things as a form of MAD. if any country released a weaponized virus you can be damn sure we'd be going through WW3 right now.

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monkmith posted...

you realize that governments have been weaponizing diseases for decades right?

The mongols flung diseased carcasses into the city walls of their enemies.
Natives were given blankets covered in smallpox by Europeans.
Japan built unit 731 in manchuria to cultivate diseases and tested the effects of their chinese prisoners.

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monkmith posted...

oh yes i see, i've got you tagged as an anti-vaxer...

my point isn't that they made the virus and released it, but that every major country makes these things as a form of MAD. if any country released a weaponized virus you can be damn sure we'd be going through WW3 right now.

You're free to believe what you want to believe. This topic is not about Vaccines or ww3 though it's about Weaponizing viruses.

Just wanted to share some info I came by

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Engineering "super viruses" is a common method to predict how nature might natural evolve them itself. By getting ahead of the curve, it's faster to develop vaccines or cures to potential outbreaks before they occur.

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The article in question

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxqnm/ethical-questions-arise-after-scientists-brew-super-powerful-sars-20-virus

Furthermore, the study comes in the wake of a US government announcement of a moratorium on federal funding for research that focused on the viruses that cause SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), as well as those that cause influenza and MERS. This study began before that ban was created, so it was grandfathered in and allowed to run to completion.
In order to study the virus in a lab, scientists created a "chimaeric virus," or a hybrid made of protein and the structure of a SARS virus. Critics say that the benefit isn't worth it to isolate a virus that, theoretically, could escape the lab and infect people.
"If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature.
The virus in question, a strain of bat coronavirus, is similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the disease that triggered widespread panic during an outbreak in Asia in 2002 and 2003 that spread to 29 countries, infected about 8,000, and killed over 700 people. After the outbreak, scientists concluded that the virus likely jumped from a species of bat to humans through a process called zoonotic transfer.


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