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Why wouldn't it be? We have all the technology. Why make a dirty bomb, when you can make something invisible and release it at a busy airport, and it gets everywhere in a month and only affects the unvaccinated. It could be very profitable. Why politicians rush to convince us that this is not lab-made?! If not the original SARS-CoV-2, then Omicron for sure was lab-made.


Covid-19 does not match the characteristics that the CCP are stating they wish to develop [1] in regards to targeted biological weapons. The closest I could see to calling covid-19 a targeted weapon would be against people that are already sick have comorbidity. Otherwise at best it disrupts every economy to some degree. It has done a good job of dividing people, creating distrust, angst and anxiety but I would argue that impacted China as well. I could however see a disgruntled lab tech that is angry at the world releasing it. People throw their lives away for far less impact all the time think mass shootings. For a government to use this type of virus as a weapon would require first inoculating all of the people they value against it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNxl7tiVSY [video]


Or “inoculating” those they don’t value after releasing it


If SARA-CoV-2 wasn’t lab-made, Omicron for sure wasn’t either. Why would you release a biological weapon that already does exactly as the currently ongoing pandemic?

Also, how are you going to get every non-target vaccinated before the virus shows up?

What you’re saying makes absolutely no sense.


> Why would you release a biological weapon that already does exactly as the currently ongoing pandemic?

and with less mortality and milder symptoms.


Are you a creationist? Serious question.


I am a practicing Orthodox Christian, so, yeah, I do buy the Simulation hypothesis very seriously.


Then your assumption that Omicron just had to be made in a lab makes sense, considering you don't believe in evolution in the first place.


There's no conflict between evolution and Orthodoxy. I have medical researchers, physicists, psychologists, and other prominent scientist attending our church. Our planets was seeded with life and then God help a little bit so that it's not populated only by beasts.




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