Quote from: Balthazar on February 12, 2020, 10:19:25 AM

Quote from: tvbcof on February 12, 2020, 01:38:08 AM

There is a reason why bioweapon research facilities such as Plum Island are almost always called 'animal disease centers'. It's not just silly propaganda or a funny joke to the staff and faculty. They really do study the fuck out of the diseases which often have been first identified in animal stock, and animals are used extensively in the research and production. Weaponization involves figuring out how to get them to infect a target species (usually homo sapien) and selection of desirable parameters of the infection. 'gain of function.'

People have a mis-understanding that bioweapons always have a high lethality. Very often such a thing would be a bug rather than a feature. Plenty of weapons already fit that need. Non-lethal bioweapons can have a much greater overall impact if they can be deployed over a broad target and over many years. Subtle effects go undetected but have a huge overall impact.

It is also worth note that most leaderships (rightly) consider the biggest threat to their position to be the population they lead and expend a lot of the resources at their disposal in dealing with the threat. Further, the population of ones own country is a much more exploitable source of wealth. With the right kind of medical system, a modestly sick individual can still perform functions in the economy but can be milked by the medical/industrial complex for the rest of their life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6gCqulCok

Your hypothesis may seem logical but it lacks a factual evidence. Even if we would guess that all statements are correct then we still have alternative, i. e. natural selection. Which is better because of Occam's razor. And, unlike your hypothesis, this alternative may be proven be wrong so it does satisfy the Popper's criteria. That can't be said about your hypothesis of weaponization of some naturally occurring virus by the people who made a precious illusion of their stupidity.

But when have any of us looked for factual evidence? All we all do is read info posted by others, and we don't even check them out to determine if they are trustworthy.

Natural healing has been around for thousands of years. Modern medical for only a few hundred. Yet millions flock to modern medicine even though its failures seem to be the standard way they work.

Personally, I think that medical popularity is based on the hundredth monkey effect, and that the hundredth monkey effect is based on universal consciousness. The Hundredth Monkey:

Quote from: http://www.wowzone.com/monkey.htm

The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known. Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea...Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

From the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, Jr.
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