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.
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.