This is the first time in history that a handful of people working in a lab can kill the majority of human beings on earth. All it takes is to serial passage the right virus for a 10% lethality (like SARs1) and improve its virulence. Given the number of carbon cult malthusians at the levers of power, I think it’s only a matter of time before the culling and control begins. Gain of Function research is much more of a threat than nukes.
Probably the minimum number of mad communists needed is now one, one Cain mad at all the Abels, Alphas, and Chads. Tesla was a good-hearted incel, but imagine an evil genius basement dweller equipped with the latest in Alien Intelligence and DNA tools, mad at the world.
“Gain of Function research is much more of a threat than nukes.”
Exactly.
“Gain of Function research is much more of a threat than nukes.”
Exactly.