Brian Shannow Shannon: Very High politics are behind the entire thing. It was a bio weapon deigned to kill humans from North America. Bio engineering a weapon to kill North Americans for the Han take over.
Linda Hamlen:
You have no idea how right you are.
The virus was created by stitching together around six different viruses, based around coronavirus WIV1. The idea arose out of SARS in 2005 (which was naturally occurring). The concept was for a keyhole virus targeting the respiratory systems of specific populations. Death was not the point so much as total medium-term debilitation. It wasn't really about creating corpses; it was about overwhelming the other side's health and civil contingency systems. Since it was not primarily intended to be a killer virus, it was hoped that this would mean no-one noticed our breach of the Biological Weapons Convention.
The disease was intended to be easily spread but not to be noticed. The ideal virus was going to be contagious from day 1 but essentially asymptomatic for about four weeks. This would allow maximum spread. The original project blueprint envisioned the patient suffering a totally debilitating, potentially fatal, outcome withing three days of symptoms emerging. Doctors would not know that an illness existed until suddenly thousands of people showed up with flu. Then just as they understood that they were dealing with a new SARS-type virus (but much more virulent and easily spread), they would be crushed by the cascade of sick as new cases emerged.
The original project blueprint, however, also called for the virus to be ineffective against certain specific ethnicities. As we can see from the Wuhan leak, we failed in that respect. In point of fact, we failed in most elements of the project. But we did create what the Central Military Commission demanded - a working SARS-type virus. What a pity we lost control it.
The last time we made such a mistake was in the 1980s when a lab leak caused outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever. The scientists responsible ended up in shallow graves outside Erenhot. I suppose I will join them soon enough. This leak was a severe error.