Posted on 08/23/2022 8:25:56 AM PDT by John Semmens
A team of US and Canadian scientists announced that they have been successful in their efforts to recreate the Spanish Flu virus that killed an estimated 25 to 50 million people between 1918 and 1920.
Speaking off-the-record, a person close to one of the team members explained that "the recent coronavirus pandemic exposed holes in our knowledge of potential biological weapons. The gain-of-function research on the covid virus conducted in China with funding forwarded by Dr. Fauci was only successful in producing a strain that could reliably kill the old and infirm members of society. Even at that, the rapid mutation of the virus weakened its lethality such that it could no longer be relied upon to kill even the weak."
"The ineffectiveness of the covid virus to take out more valuable members of a society sparked a quest for a more potent pathogen," the source said. "The so-called Spanish Flu's success in killing large numbers of the young and vigorous cohort of the population made it an attractive option. By adding this virus to our bio-warfare arsenal we will have the capability to decimate Chinese armed forces and, thus, be able to credibly deter potential Chinese biological attacks against us."
The announcement prompted President Biden to assert that "there is no proof that China would even consider attacking us with bio-weapons. Hunter has assured me that China is interested in doing business with us, not making war on us as long as we behave ourselves. Besides, both China and the United States are democracies. Historically, democracies have never gone to war against each other."
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John, I thought that this was a real headline, not one of your satires.
Are modern politics making your job harder or easier?
Um, this was already done, for real. Scientists recreated the H1N1 virus that caused the 1917-1919 pandemic back in 2005. The reason for this research was to investigate why that pandemic was so deadly and, hopefully, to use that knowledge to prevent or mitigate another deadly pandemic. Our government did keep close watch on this research to prevent it from being misused.
Even before Covid showed up, pandemic research was placed on high priority by governments all over the world. Our success in developing mitigation measures for Covid—masks, social distancing, hand washing, and vaccines—was only made possible by decades of anti-pandemic research conducted by thousands of scientists all over the world. It’s a shame that certain anti-human groups spread so much misinformation about Covid and vaccines, seriously undermining the public health efforts.
Hi. Good work.
But, some of the satire you have posted in the past has come true, right?
Still...
Very good satire.
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The research is real.
My satire is all founded on real facts. I just add the omitted motives and rationales of the big government fools and/or criminals that inflict the damages on society.
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