Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[TGLS]

Ideally yes, but that's if they have the capability to tailor it however they like. A virus that targets the elderly and middle-aged is still very useful to use on a civilization that wants to keep those people around, and most of these already do that.

A bullet that targets enemy soldiers would be better than one that's purely ballistic, but, well.

Yeah, well, you can aim guns. Heck, mustard gas can be aimed effectively on a non-windy day. Bioweapons have a tough time being aimed to begin with. I suppose this is in part why bioweapons haven't really been used outside of Unit 731.

[Darth Wedgius]

You can aim bioweapons as well, by delivering containers of it into the enemy.

One might also wants to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident .

These weren't made to target people of military age; you don't need to do that for strategic warfare.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

You can aim them at the first target. You don't get to aim for the next sequence of people it infects.

[Darth Wedgius]

It is true that a bioweapon's full set of casualties cannot be precisely determined. However, you might not expect a lot of people travelling between your cities and enemy cities during a war.

More importantly, nations did develop bioweapons. Wisely or not, legally or not. And sometimes germs have gotten loose.

[King Green]

We are going to have to create a new Geneva Convention for this literal piece of crap of a virus, considering the original virus that spreaded it was not fully organic but 1/4 synthitic. So who did this is probably an intentional or unintentional Post-Crisis!Thanos.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

wat

[Riedquat]

On the subject of conspiracy theories I usually find the old idea of "never explain by conspiracy that which can be explained by cock-up (or bad luck)" works well.

Indeed. And it does really apply to this sittuation. After all that's how this started, from cock-up or bad luck. Something that should be clear to anyone to see and has evidence supporting it.

And the bad luck and cock-up looks most likely down to being poor hygiene in markets. The bioweapon stuff is laughable.

[Madner Kami]

^This^

[phantom000]

Supposedly, recovered cases are out pacing new cases in China, which is a sign that the virus has ran its course over there at least.

That's assuming the reports are accurate...

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Yeah I read that 80% of businesses are back up and running. Which is measures more critical than I'm familiar with here, but that's sheerly a pretty high rate for progress consideration.