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I apologies for my other reply - which was flagged - perhaps I was rude. You are wrong because there are ways to introduce a gene drive through pathogens - e.g. you introduce a self-generating CRISPR payload through a pathogen vector for which it is possible to completely saturate gen 0. Source: I worked in a leading biology lab, with biologists actually performing this research.

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If you can get a pathogen vector to infect all of humanity you already have just about everything you need to cause massive damage; the gene drive doesn't make this situation appreciably worse.

(Speaking for myself, not SecureBio)

We are comparing guns and bullets. The fact that you can genetically engineer a pathogen vector to deliver a gene drive is not well known to the public.

We just recently had COVID which was likely bioengineered (as the lab leak is now "officially" considered a plausible explanation)

How could they make sure that the CRISPR payload survives replication?

Which replication? Of the virus or of gen 0?

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