” I’m beginning to think that the Chinese leadership’s panic was possibly triggered by the effects of the swine flu on swine herds. “
How about they were panicked because they designed it and know what it’s capable of.
[How about they were panicked because they designed it and know what it’s capable of.]
Before the offensive effort was shut down by Nixon, the best minds at Fort Detrick couldn’t do much beyond replicate current pathogens and design delivery vehicles that wouldn’t destroy those pathogens when detonated/released. If the Chinese can’t even build a working copy of an engine for a jet fighter than won’t flame out prematurely, despite having multiple copies of the original Russian engines in their inventory, it’s a stretch to think that they can gin up an *original* virus that is more virulent than anything found in nature.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-air-force-has-one-big-problem-it-cant-seem-solve-34192
Real life and science fiction are very different things. We envisioned light speed travel in the 60’s. 60 years later, we can’t even get within 1/10,000 of that speed today.