If the Chinese were going to engineer a bio-weapon and deliberately release it into the world, they would have made it a lot more deadly.
If Covid did come from a lab, it was an experiment, released accidentally, and the Chinese simply took advantage, trusting Western media and governments to do what they do best, and whip up a mass hysteria over nothing in order to make money and expand their own power.
I'm no fan of China, but in this instance, they're just a distraction. The real villains are our own governments, and we can't let them use the Chinese as a scapegoat to avoid accountability.
Not if you want a bio weapon for economic warfare. I worked at the DOD 20 years ago around people who thought up such ideas. And thought it would be a good thing. (These were the same folks who provided Saddam with his bio & chemical weapons in the 80’s so...)
On paper what you want is something that spreads fast, can overwhelm medical systems, but not deadly enough to cause nukes to fly in retaliation. This COVID thing fits that bill.
Now whether it was created as such i don’t know, but it was certainly used as such by China.
If the Chinese were going to engineer a bio-weapon and deliberately release it into the world, they would have made it a lot more deadly.
If Covid did come from a lab, it was an experiment, released accidentally, and the Chinese simply took advantage, trusting Western media and governments to do what they do best, and whip up a mass hysteria over nothing in order to make money and expand their own power.
I'm no fan of China, but in this instance, they're just a distraction. The real villains are our own governments, and we can't let them use the Chinese as a scapegoat to avoid accountability.
hypothetically, it got out before completion.
Or they were looking for something mild to make the HK protesters go home.
This is the most likely scenario. It was a research thing in the hands of Chinese incompetent neglect.
Not if you want a bio weapon for economic warfare. I worked at the DOD 20 years ago around people who thought up such ideas. And thought it would be a good thing. (These were the same folks who provided Saddam with his bio & chemical weapons in the 80’s so...)
On paper what you want is something that spreads fast, can overwhelm medical systems, but not deadly enough to cause nukes to fly in retaliation. This COVID thing fits that bill.
Now whether it was created as such i don’t know, but it was certainly used as such by China.