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@icyfroth wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Icyfroth wrote: Not the first time germ warfare has been unleashed to reduce a given population.

 

Really? So enlighten us - which were the previous 'unleashings' and who unleashed this one?

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In the past? Measles, smallpox, venereal disease, alcoholism, drug addiction etc, introduced to  the indigineous populations of the British colonies for example.

 

This latest one? We blame China. But really?

 

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People 200 years ago had no idea about viruses or bacteria & didn't deliberately unleash them on anyone. Indigenous populations were hard hit because they had not been in contact with those diseases so no one had immunity.

Those  sorts of diseases, it is worth noting, also had a regular impact on white populations too.  Even now, measles can still be a serious illness with complications. I am interested in genealogy & my family trees are littered with childhood deaths from things such as diptheria and adult deaths from TB etc

Covid19 came out of China. Probably by accident but people sometimes do blame China for the conditions at markets that make it easier for these sorts of viruses to take hold.

 think there are 2 parts to the blame game here though. Part might be as to how the virus originated but the second part is about whether the seriousness of the virus was covered up for political reasons. To me, that is a different issue entirely and fair enough for people to ask questions, just as it is fair enough to ask Dan Andrews questions about the hotel quarantine arrangements etc. Those sorts of matters go beyond the virus.

There's no doubt that governments have looked at 'germ warfare' as you put it & its more of a possibility these days than it would have been back in the distant past.

To me, some of the most disturbing aspects would be where we have seen actual chemical warfare used.

For example: Where Saddam Hussein deliberately used chemical weapons against his very own people, killing thousands of civilians in the 1980s.

And after 9/11,  "the organization Al queda announced that they were attempting to acquire radiological, biological, and chemical weapons. This threat was lent a great deal of credibility when a large archive of videotapes was obtained by CNN in August 2002 showing, among other things, the killing of three dogs by an apparent nerve agent."

Now, that's a worry!