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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Not buying it. If this is a "bioweapon", it is the lousiest ever conceived and developed. It has a relatively low mortality rate, a long prodromal period, generally spread person to person, and has a predilection for older people
A bioweapon should hit hard and fast with a high mortality and affect mostly younger people--like those in the military and those that can fight back.
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Yes, I understand your point and it’s a good one in the classical sense of what a bio-weapon would typically do.
But there’s another way to look at it, because we may now be in a new era. Perhaps we need to invent a different term, something akin to a “bio-economic weapon.” With respect to the American economy, I’d say the Wuhan virus certainly has a high mortality.
An earlier poster said the Chinese are “not stupid.” Actually, I think the Chinese are smarter that we are in many respects.