I've had someone make that argument before. I have a virology textbook talking about how difficult it is to work with coronavirus, an RNA virus with a genome at the theoretical limit in size, 30kb. If it was easy, then SARS and MERS would have spurred a vaccine. If you wanted to make a bio weapon, you could just fuck around with the bio weapons that exist already. And a considerable amount of the damage of the virus came from systematic violence, not the virus itself. But then they go, "nonononono WDYMP, they're just like that. They LIKE it complicated." I don't argue anymore. I much prefer to hurl insults nowadays.
Besides, if you've ever considered the lengths the US went through in Cuba, it would be clear that a bunch of complicated parts in a plan love to collapse (bay of pigs, 100 million assassination attempts). Doing a heckin bio attack because you're bored by picking the most ornerous virus to work with seems like bad clandestine SOP.
Seems a lot more complicated and annoying than propaganda or physical force
if you'll look at these caliper readings you'll see that's how the sinitic brain pan is predisposed to operate
I've had someone make that argument before. I have a virology textbook talking about how difficult it is to work with coronavirus, an RNA virus with a genome at the theoretical limit in size, 30kb. If it was easy, then SARS and MERS would have spurred a vaccine. If you wanted to make a bio weapon, you could just fuck around with the bio weapons that exist already. And a considerable amount of the damage of the virus came from systematic violence, not the virus itself. But then they go, "nonononono WDYMP, they're just like that. They LIKE it complicated." I don't argue anymore. I much prefer to hurl insults nowadays.
Besides, if you've ever considered the lengths the US went through in Cuba, it would be clear that a bunch of complicated parts in a plan love to collapse (bay of pigs, 100 million assassination attempts). Doing a heckin bio attack because you're bored by picking the most ornerous virus to work with seems like bad clandestine SOP.