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Mudassir Ali
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Originally Answered: Is the Corona virus a bio weapon made by China?
The SARS virus and the 2019-nCoV coronavirus (and some other notable infectious diseases) emerged in China because of dietary habits combined with animal disease patterns, along with crowded living conditions and weaknesses of the medical system.
There is absolutely no evidence or logical reason for blaming this on biological warfare.
Chinese markets sell a wide variety of wild animals — often alive — for food and as traditional medical remedies. This exposes the people who catch and sell the animals and the people who butcher, buy, and eat them to a lot more animal viruses than you would encounter in a society of unadventuresome eaters. Now consider the fact that sick wild animals are easier to catch than healthy ones. And the fact that live animals in food markets can spread diseases more effectively than packaged and shrink-wrapped slices of meat in a supermarket refrigerator.
Then think of the crowding in housing, mass transit, and just about everywhere else in a country where a city of eleven million is not big enough for most of us to have heard of.
Besides all the evidence that these diseases have emerged naturally, there’s the fact that the conspiracy-theory version would require a rare combination of extreme intelligence, stupidity, evil, and carelessness.
To be able to bioengineer these viruses, especially SARS, back in 2001 when the tools for that level of genetic engineering hadn’t even been imagined yet, would have required truly extraordinary, even impossible, intelligence.
To think that world dominance could be achieved by releasing a disease like SARS would require unbelievable stupidity. (Anyone who could do this kind of science would have no business being ignorant of why it couldn’t work.)
The level of evil required to pursue such a scheme and the number of people who would have to be that wicked boggles the imagination, at least if you’re not a screenwriter or a certain kind of politician or autocrat. (But remember, a scheme that massive would require normal people in supporting roles.)
After the meticulous scientific and technological work needed to produce such dangerous disease agents, this scenario requires not one, but two, instances of astounding carelessness. Really, this story shouldn’t even make it into a B movie.