COVID-19 can reawaken dormant viruses

Could this be more proof that a modified coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) or perhaps a biological weapon was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Institute is believed to be a dual use research institute. What did Anthony Fauci know about this?

Or is this result just due to the super intensive research into the cause of Covid-19?

Or was this expected to happen due to the typically weakened immune system of an individual after Covid-19 infection?

Such reactivations of dormant viruses is definitely something to be aware of!

"As if an infection with SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t enough for a body to handle, the coronavirus reawakens a variety of other, dormant viruses in some people. A large new study delving into this phenomenon shows this virus reactivation is complex and the health impact murky, but it could worsen symptoms of COVID-19 and increase a person’s risk of Long Covid.

The study looked at tissues samples and medical reports from more than 1000 COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic. “Nearly half of people … had a virus that they were already carrying wake up,” said neuroimmunologist and co-author Esther Melamed. “This happens [even] in people whose immune systems are otherwise normal.”

The work has impressed some SARS-CoV-2 researchers. “The scale of the endeavor and the range of human viruses they’ve looked at” makes this the most comprehensive data set yet on viral reactivation in COVID-19 ..."

"Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists noticed that a SARS-CoV-2 infection can “wake up” other, dormant viruses already present in the body.

A study out today in Nature extends those and subsequent observations, documenting viral reactivation for a cohort of more than 1000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 before mid-2021. ...

The findings, which were partially described in a preprint in late 2024, include data on viruses previously overlooked in COVID-19 patients, he adds. ..."

From the abstract:

"Chronic viral infections are ubiquitous in humans, with individuals carrying multiple viruses that can reactivate during physiological stress, including severe illness.

Notably, SARS-CoV-2 infection has been shown to reactivate chronic viruses such as Epstein–Barr virus and cytomegalovirus, yet the full extent, temporal dynamics and immunological impact of viral reactivation in COVID-19 remain incompletely understood.

Here, leveraging multi-omic longitudinal data from 1,154 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from the Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC) study, we reveal significant reactivation of Herpesviridae and Anelloviridae during acute COVID-19, with distinct temporal dynamics for different viruses, and demonstrate that reactivation correlates with disease severity, host immune effects and clinical outcomes.

Although our results do not establish causation between virus reactivation and clinical outcomes, we highlight the prevalence of chronic viral reactivation during acute COVID-19 and long COVID.

Our findings challenge the prevailing view that chronic viral reactivation is primarily a consequence of immunosuppression, demonstrating that reactivations occur frequently in immunocompetent individuals during severe illness and in association with increased systemic inflammation.

Additionally, we demonstrate persistence of viral reactivation in convalescence, and report an association of Anelloviridae with long COVID.

This study provides immune, transcriptomic and metabolomic signatures of viral reactivation that could inform future strategies to prognosticate and treat acute COVID-19 and long COVID."

ScienceAdviser

COVID-19 can wake up dormant viruses in the body, large study confirms "Virus reactivations by SARS-CoV-2 could worsen initial symptoms and increase risk of Long Covid"

Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 (open access)

Chronic Viral Reactivation and Associated Host Immune Response and Clinical Outcomes in Acute COVID-19 and Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (preprint from 2024, open access)

Fig. 1: The transcriptionally active human virome of the blood, upper airway and lungs in patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19.

Fig. 3: Antibody response, proteomics, and circulating cellular immunophenotyping validates chronic viral reactivation in COVID-19.

New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews

Food for thought! No doubt this has been a dangerous grey area for several decades of e.g. dual use!

Remember: Under Anthony Fauci so called gain of function research was funded by the US government at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (a dual use research institute) in China, where the Covid-19 coronavirus may have escaped (lab leak hypothesis). What moron ever had that great idea?

"A new U.S. policy that aims to reduce the risks arising from federally funded research with dangerous pathogens ...

Last year, in response to those concerns, President Donald Trump ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other research funding agencies to pause or review studies that potentially involved so-called dangerous gain-of-function (DGOF) research. Such experiments give pathogens new characteristics, such as the ability to more easily spread or cause death. The White House also tasked agencies with developing the new policy to stop other “high risk life sciences research.”

The 12-page policy—which broadly follows the language in Trump’s executive order—includes several departures from past U.S. attempts to govern similar work. It appears to cover all pathogens, rather than limiting regulation to a specific list, such as only those with “pandemic potential.” It requires researchers and universities to identify any study that might produce a biological agent that would “significantly endanger” people or agriculture. They must thoroughly evaluate its risks and benefits before submitting a funding proposal to the government. ...

In addition, the policy imposes an outright ban—rather than tighter review requirements—on funding for seven kinds of biological research that the policy defines as DGOF. That list of forbidden studies includes projects that could make a pathogen more transmissible, for instance, or better able to evade the human immune system. It also includes efforts to resurrect an extinct pathogen, such as the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic—a project completed in 2012 by a team led by one of NIH’s own scientists.

The policy also bars funding for studies in the nascent field of “mirror life”—engineered microorganisms with reversed molecular building blocks that could theoretically threaten all life on Earth. No governments have so far enacted bans on such research and the issue has divided scientists, with some calling such prohibitions premature. ..."

"... This comprehensive framework prohibits federally supported dangerous gain-of-function (DGOF) research while establishing stronger oversight for life sciences research that could pose significant risks to public health, biosecurity, or national security. The policy fulfills President Trump’s Executive Order aimed at improving the safety and security of biological research, and it ensures that taxpayer-funded research advances scientific discovery and medical innovation without exposing Americans to biological risks. ...

“Today, we are ending federal support for dangerous gain-of-function research and replacing weak oversight with clear, enforceable safeguards. ... ”Specifically, the new policy prohibits federal support for dangerous gain-of-function research conducted in the United States and abroad, establishes rigorous independent review for certain high-risk life sciences research, and restricts federal funding for research conducted in countries or institutions that lack appropriate biosafety, biosecurity, and oversight standards. At the same time, the policy preserves critical biomedical research — including the development of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other medical countermeasures — under strong safety and security safeguards. ..."

New U.S. rules on risky pathogen research draw mixed reviews | Science | AAAS

Trump Administration Releases New Government-Wide Policy to End Dangerous High-Risk Research

British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions and new estimates of Australia's population at the time. Really!

Possibly, two more junk science studies trying to malign Western colonialism?

One of the two studies seems to have relied heavily on computer modelling! This is not evidence!

The abstract of both studies are loaded with dubious ideological language indicating a bias on the part of researchers.

Why did the indigenous people of Australia not protect themselves? Did these people not know anything about contagious diseases?

What if the smallpox did not only arrive from the northern coast by other seafaring populations?

"On a hot summer day in January 1788, 11 ships filled with British convicts and sailors landed in Australia’s Sydney Harbor. There, naval Captain Arthur Phillip raised the Union Jack and claimed the continent for the British crown.

The arrival of this so-called First Fleet preceded a catastrophe that befell the continent’s Indigenous people. More than a year after the first landing, “there are a significant number of Aboriginal people perishing in horrible, ghastly circumstances [???] from what sounds like smallpox,” says Lynette Russell, a historian at Monash University. “By 1789, a horrendous depopulation has occurred.” ...

Some historians put forward an alternative hypothesis: that the disease entered the continent from the north through contact with seafaring populations in Indonesia, where smallpox had been circulating for centuries. ...

The team used computer models to test both hypotheses, incorporating mortality rates, potential travel pathways based on the availability of water, data on Aboriginal language groups, and estimates of population densities between Sydney and Australia’s northern coast. The modeling showed that any smallpox epidemic originating on Australia’s northern coast would have petered out before making it thousands of kilometers over land to Sydney Harbor.

“No matter how bad we assume the disease to be, it couldn’t have made it from the north to Sydney at the right time,” says Flinders University ecologist Corey Bradshaw, a co-author of both papers. “It’s beyond a shadow of a doubt” that it came with the fleet. ...

The study sidesteps the question of whether members of the First Fleet knowingly exposed Indigenous people to smallpox. Although there’s no record of any such plans from Australia, British colonists are known to have deliberately infected Indigenous groups in North America, where smallpox also took a catastrophic toll. ...

In the other preprint, members of the same research team calculated how large of a population was exposed to those impacts. Based on ethnographic reports gathered in the late 1800s, previous researchers had suggested there were between 200,000 and 800,000 people in precolonial Australia, mostly living in tiny, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers. “There’s been an assumption that Aboriginal populations were quite low and their activities were ephemeral and transient,” says archaeologist Alan Williams, a consultant who co-authored both papers.

Analyzing thousands of radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites across Australia, Williams tracked when people first reached different parts of the continent, beginning more than 50,000 years ago. He then extrapolated population growth over time, based on fertility and survival rates in other parts of the world and the rate at which artifacts proliferated across the landscape as a proxy for population growth. “If you start with a population of 1000, and it goes up even 1% a year, you end up with a population of millions,” Williams says. ..."

From the abstract (2):

"The impact of smallpox (variola) on Aboriginal communities in Australia beginning in 1789 was catastrophic and continues to cause intergenerational trauma. [???]

Historically biased perspectives [???] and contemporary misinformation of the disease’s introduction and spread impede modern-day truth-telling [???] and efforts towards reconciliation and national healing.

Understanding whether the disease entered and spread from pre-colonial Makassan (Indonesian) trade along the northern coast, or from the British First Fleet’s arrival in southeastern Australia in 1788, is necessary to estimate the demographic impact.

Here we developed stochastic, multipatch epidemiological models supported by systematic evaluation of historical observations to test hypotheses regarding possible disease entry points, spread rate and demographic impacts.

Our models support the hypothesis that entry of the disease was in southeastern Australia. Even under ideal conditions and with higher-than-probable infection rates, simulations show that smallpox was unlikely to reach Sydney from a northern entry.

We found no evidence that the 1789 epidemic was Australia-wide. Assuming 60% lethality based on global data, the loss of approximately 220,000 people would have occurred in these regions. While catastrophic to traditional Indigenous lifeways in the southeast, the disease also provided the catalyst for population decline and marginalization of Indigenous people in the face of expanding European populations. Our models indicate that it is unlikely that other parts of Australia were affected by the initial epidemic. We warn readers that the content of this study might be distressing."

From the abstract (4):

"Estimating the size of Indigenous populations in Australia prior to European colonial invasion [???] is essential to truth-telling [???] and reconciliation.

Robust estimates of the population dynamics of pre-colonial Indigenous Australians are poor due to lethal diseases, frontier violence, and no systematic censuses.

We review ethnographic observations, archaeological and genetic reconstructions, and modelled carrying capacity, to infer Indigenous population size prior to colonial invasion. This allows an estimate of the number of excess deaths in post-colonial times.

Congruency of the modelled (not historical accounts) estimates suggests a bootstrapped pre-colonial median of 2.51 million, or 0.33 people km -2 . For a median pre-colonial population of 2.51 million, ~ 32,500 excess deaths year -1 (2.39 million deaths in total) would have had to occur over the late 18 th and early 19 th Centuries from colonial invasion-related mortality.

These findings highlight the major impacts of invasion experienced by Indigenous Australians, and demonstrate their survival, resilience, and recovery over the past 235 years."

British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions | Science | AAAS "Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed"

(1) Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure (preprint, open access)

(2) Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure (no public access)

(3) Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following European invasion

(4) Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following European invasion

Fig. 1 The 49 ethnographic entries from the Binford29 hunter-gatherer database (red dots — darker red indicates relatively higher densities) overlaid on the HadCM330 net primary production-derived estimates of human carrying capacities (expressed in people km-2). States and territories indicated. Legend indicates relative densities (greyscale). Also shown are several place names mentioned in the text.

A second, secret Chinese biolab found on US soil?

Serious stuff, if confirmed!

"...

The secret Chinese lab apparently was not one of a kind. SWAT officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department raided a home in the city's northeast end on Jan. 31, discovering a suspected illegal biolab apparently linked to the Chinese national who owned the Reedley site. ...

that "the home was owned by the same individual connected to a prior, illegal bio-lab investigation in Reedley, California, that occurred in 2023." ..."

Another secret Chinese biolab found on US soil? | Blaze Media

Putin the Terrible has formed separate military units of soldiers with infectious diseases to fight in the Ukraine

Bad news! Is this a form of (hybrid) biological warfare?

When will the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! Please Russian people make the world a better, more peaceful place again!

"Russia has formed military units composed of soldiers with HIV, hepatitis, and other diseases, deploying them in segregated units on the front in eastern Ukraine. 

The troops are outfitted in armbands and bracelets that signal their illness.  

A growing crisis: The move speaks to a mounting health emergency within the Russian military, which is seeing surging cases of HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.  

 ..."

Global Health NOW: Trump Links Autism With Tylenol; Russia’s Infected Troops; and ‘Nicotine-Free’ Vapes Not Free of Health Concerns

Why the US Just Accused China of Agroterrorism with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! Very serious stuff! Were these two Chinese scientists acting on behalf of China's government or not? Was it terrorism or bacteriological warfare?

Putin the Terrible Revives Cold War Bioweapons center

What else is new when it comes to former KGB agent Putin the Terrible!

"New construction at a military research site near Moscow shows signs of being a specialized laboratory complex designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens, say U.S. intelligence officials.

The past: The site, Sergiev Posad-6, was a major biological weapons research center that conducted experiments during the Cold War on the viruses that cause smallpox, Ebola, and hemorrhagic fevers. 

The present: Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, satellite imagery revealed expansions of the facility, including new biological labs, which have continued.

Russian officials have said the labs will be used to strengthen the country’s defenses against pandemics and bioterrorism—the same justification the Soviet Union used to expand its bioweapons program in the 1970s and 1980s."

Global Health NOW: Tuberculosis Resurgent; Russia Revives Bioweapons Site; and Ghost Harvest

Perhaps the biggest conspiracy theory in a generation Covid-19

What if the Covid-19 lab leak hypothesis was true?

Did the Communist Party of China release the SARS-CoV-2 virus in late 2019 to interfere with the US presidential election? I bet, the scientists of the dual use research conducting Wuhan Institute of Virology knew exactly that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was very infectious, but overall rather harmless (except e.g. for immunocompromised individuals or the elderly). If it was not this institute, then this virus was released in a different way. 

Some other inconvenient facts:

1. The Chinese authorities were very reluctant to cooperate after the pandemic broke out.
2. The U.S. government was seriously compromised as it promoted and financed so called gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Anthony Fauci was the greatest perpetrator and enabler of the pandemic.
3. The lab leak hypothesis (or the intentional release of the virus) was never really investigated by Western countries if I am not mistaken

Perhaps, a perfect covert destabilization/sabotage campaign or even unconventional warfare was committed.

Responsible AI for Biodesign and protein development

This is a commendable effort by over 160 scientists worldwide! The more scientists around the world pledge not to develop and/or abuse ML & AI for nefarious purposes, the better!

A great responsibility rests on these scientists! Will they remember the responsibility and courage of e.g. Robert Oppenheimer? Pray and hope!

If the global SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 pandemic (most likely caused by a lab leak) was any warning, then the potential for mass harm by very pathogenic, infectious and lethal engineered pathogens etc. created with ML & AI is much greater.

Compared with the Global Warming hoax and the Climate Change religion, then this propaganda and demagoguery about climate is child's play!

Forget about other so called and popular criticisms of large models like hallucination, misinformation, and/or bias or adversarial attacks etc.. These are distractions at best.

The danger is comparable to the development of nuclear weapons beginning in the middle of last century! Maybe even greater!

"Toward Managing AI Bio Risk

Scientists pledged to control their use of AI to produce potentially hazardous biological materials.

What’s new: More than 150 biologists in Asia, Europe, and North America signed a voluntary commitment to internal and external oversight of machine learning models that can be used to design proteins. 

How it works: The scientists made 10 voluntary commitments regarding synthetic biology research. They promised broadly to avoid research likely to enable harm and to promote research that responds to infectious disease outbreaks or similar emergencies. ..."

The Batch by Andrew Ng

Responsible AI x Biodesign Community Values, Guiding Principles, and Commitments for the Responsible Development of AI for Protein Design

New International Biosecurity Organization Launched in Geneva

Good news!

Was SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 caused by a lab leak?

Was the Wuhan Institute of Virology involved in biological weapons development?

"Amid rapid advances in bioscience and biotechnology that could  pose significant global security risks without effective guardrails, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) today launched the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS), a first-of-its-kind organization to strengthen international biosecurity governance. IBBIS, an independent organization to be headquartered in Geneva, provides tools that will allow technological innovation to flourish, safely and responsibly. ..."

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW

New International Biosecurity Organization Launched to Safeguard Bioscience

OpenAI: Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

Good news! Nevertheless be alert and proactive! Let's immediately use machine learning & AI to develop countermeasures!

"... GPT-4 Biothreat Risk is Low

GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study.

What’s new: OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.

How it works: The researchers asked both trained biologists and biology students to design a biological threat using either web search or web search plus GPT-4. ..."

"... In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation. ..."

The Batch by Andrew Ng

Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

Could AI be used to develop very potent and lethal biological weapons?

The answer is clearly and resounding yes!

A bad actor (e.g. Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, terrorists) could train a model on relevant data to develop a new biological weapon. However, the bad actor (except for suicidal ones) would also have to develop an antidote as well.

You can bet that some clandestine research along these lines is already actively going on. Neither good nor bad actors want to be surprised.

How far are we already into this arms race?

Credits for raising the issue: The Batch by Andrew Ng (however, I think Andrew Ng is a bit naive on this subject)

U.S. National Institutes of Health took royalties from Wuhan lab collaborator, alleged front for Russian bioweapons

Incredible! Is the truth finally coming out why the lab leak hypothesis was so intensively suppressed by the U.S. government, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins?

Unfortunately, this does not look very good on former President Trump either! Either he failed to recognize the issues related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or he choose to gloss over it.

As I have blogged here multiple times since 2020, the fact that the U.S. government financed and supported dangerous virus research at this lab, which was likely prohibited in the U.S. is a very disturbing event! Further, it was reported multiple times that this lab was dual use (civilian and military research).

"The National Institutes of Health and its scientists received royalties from Chinese Communist Party-controlled pharmaceutical companies, including one that collaborated with a suspected source of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Russian vaccine maker that reportedly may have served as a front for Soviet bioweapons research, according to newly disclosed records. ...

NIH fought to shield the identities of the entities that paid to license its taxpayer-funded inventions from the agency and individual scientists, including then-Director Francis Collins and then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, who together received 58 payments from seven companies. ..."

NIH took royalties from Wuhan lab collaborator, alleged front for Russian bioweapons: records | Just The News

Busting a Covert Chinese Bio-Lab in a small town in California

Here is more on this developing and disturbing story. What are the facts? What has been confirmed? 

I have covered this story here and here just a few hours earlier.

Just the fact that this possibly dangerous biological weapons lab was intentionally located in a small town in California (about 24 miles away south east from Fresno) also speaks volumes.

Is this a case of Lenin's famous quote: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them”. Or how the enemies of Open Societies operate.

"... officials discovered a covert biological lab run by a shady Chinese company. What local officials found there was also unprecedented. ...
White mice had been genetically engineered to catch and carry the Covid virus, ... The illegal lab harbored potentially infectious bacterial and viral agents including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, samples of malaria and “thousands of vials that contained unlabeled fluids.” ...
privately funded research and development labs are not required to register with the government. That avoids the multiple permits required of those operating under state or federal grants. Someone in the state could have assisted the owners “to move from Fresno without licenses.” ...
Harper had also learned that mice are “unprotected” under the United States Department of Agriculture. According to the National Institutes of Health, mice and rats “have long served as the preferred species for biomedical research animal models.” ...

At the outset of August, the Fresno Bee and Sacramento Bee had not covered the story. Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued no statement on the lab and neither had the California Department of Toxic Substances Control or the California Department of Public Health. ..."

Busting Covert Chinese Bio-Lab in California | Frontpage Mag Legal loopholes could speed the spread of viral agents.

What was inside the illegal Reedley lab? Photos show blood vials, disease samples

Here is another report about this incredible story! See also my previous post!

US authorities uncover secret Wuhan like 'Covid-19' lab in California

What! This is an incredible story if confirmed! As if China planted a biological, possibly military research lab in the U.S. disguised as a business. It was an illegal laboratory! Why was this not reported in Western media?

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What Really Happened in Wuhan

Very recommendable! Unfortunately, this documentary is interrupted very frequently by commercials often at the wrong time! Very annoying!

The most likely scenario is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was working on biological weapons as well since the Chinese military is involved with this institute. Then an accidental or a deliberate lab leak happened!

This documentary starts with the 2019 Military World Games held from October 18–27, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China with 9,308 athletes from 109 countries! Was this the proving ground for new biological weapon?

There were 14 American diplomats on the ground in Wuhan at the time according to the interview with former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (former Director of the CIA). It appears the information from these diplomats is classified!

The documentary reports on following research paper published by Nature journal on June 24, 2021:

In silico comparison of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-ACE2 binding affinities across species and implications for virus origin (public access)

From the abstract:

"... These findings show that the earliest known SARS-CoV-2 isolates were surprisingly well adapted to bind strongly to human ACE2, helping explain its efficient human to human respiratory transmission. ..."

U.S. top scientists and officials are deeply involved in the cover up like the 80 year old clown and charlatan Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak. Both are compromised by serious conflicts of interest! Fauci admitted that he would not have done this kind of gain of function research in a U.S. lab, but rather at the Wuhan Institute of Virology! Why is this man still not fired!!!!!

The World Health Organisation is deeply compromised by Chinese influence from the top down!

President Trump does not look very good. Under his administration the gain of function research ban was lifted in 2017. When asked about it, he evaded!

The potential threat of biological warfare on a global scale

If anything, the SARS-CoV-2 triggered global pandemic has clearly demonstrated what happens after a very infectious, but not very lethal virus has been released!

What if some maniac or terrorist group or nation state develops a more lethal virus? Don't fool yourself believing it takes an expensive, very sophisticated laboratory to develop such a virus. This may not be true. The question about the possibility biological warfare on a global scale has probably not been widely discussed anymore in the public since the 1950s or 1960s during the height of the Cold War.

Do not rest assured on the prevailing assumption that anyone who releases such a biological weapon will destroyed as well. For long time this has been the dominant view, I believe, in the assessment of ABC weapons (atomic, biological, and chemical).

It would be interesting to learn whether China had already developed an antidote to SARS-CoV-2 before it was released or accidentally escaped? When will we learn about it if ever? Did the Communist Party of China try to warn the world? Don't mess with us! Or did the CPC try to distract the rest of the world from something? Or both?

Going forward, it is of vital importance that more money is invested in research etc. to defeat viruses once and for all. We have made great progress regarding e.g. HIV/AIDS and now SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19, let's not get complacent! I am convinced that we already have the means to achieve that, let's bring it to bear!

Bombshell dossier indicates China has been ‘preparing’ for bio-warfare

Very recommendable!

SARS-CoV-2: A reminder of the horrors of biological warfare

Whether or not this virus was unintentionally released or accidentally escaped or was deliberately released from a (civilian/military) laboratory in Wuhan, China or not, cannot obscure the fact that this virus is another valuable lesson of what could happen should a biological warfare break out. In short, pandemonium! 

We can be very thankful that this SARS-CoV-2 virus is relatively harmless as if it was a ominous reminder how dangerous it could have been had another, more lethal virus been released. Just imagine ...

The whole world ought to insist that the Communist Party of China fully cooperates in thoroughly investigating this incident! Pressure ought to be put on the dictator for life, Xi Jinpeng to resign.

The specter of a war with biological agents was shrouded in some kind of mystery or obscurity for decades. If I am not mistaken, not much was discussed about it in public as if not to frighten the general public. Unlike nuclear warfare, biological warfare has received much less attention then it has deserved and it ought to deserve. When comparing nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, it is quite obvious that latter is most likely the most dangerous one. The Covid-19 global pandemic was also a stark reminder how unprepared most countries are should a biological warfare ensue. This might and ought to change now!