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I have been learning more about biology and the immune system. I’ve realized that genetic engineering of viruses is something far easier than making a nuclear weapon and could easily wipe out humanity. It doesn’t have to be a government some crazy cult might just do it 50 years from now and create a pathogen immune to most vaccines.

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You might enjoy looking at society as one large organism [1]. Many biological patterns reemerge at this scale.

Imagine the pandemic government response as a large scale societal immune response. Inner city violence as a form of inflammation...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism

You don't even have to wipeout humanity, look at the financial destruction the current virus has done and consider how non-lethal it is compared to many others.

For that matter, every tinpot dictator and would be terrorist in the world could easily get their hands on this virus, store it for a few years until immunity has worn off and we don't have huge stockpiles of a vaccine, then purposefully release it in a dozen major cities at once, it would spread for a couple of weeks before being noticed.

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