Re:The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity
by smegger001 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @04:19PM
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to do that you would have to start mass manufacturing a vacine a somehow administer it to the whole population secretly. without any other country getting wind of it. then you have to pray it doesn't mutate enough to make your vaccine ineffective. it is to big a project to not leak just based on everyone involved having to not tell anyone. from the researchers the administration of the program to the people working at the production facility.
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Re:The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity
by anders_p on Saturday November 20, 2021 @05:46PM
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> to do that you would have to start mass manufacturing a vacine a somehow administer it to the whole population secretly.
To play devil's advocate:
This could be happening _right now_.
1) Create and release CoVid.
2) Engineer a vaccine, that also protects against a secondary, 100% deadly virus. (SinoVac?)
3) Vaccinate your own population.
4) Release the super-deadly, secret 2nd virus.
5) Profit.
> it is to big a project to not leak just based on everyone involved having to not tell anyone.
Yeah. This where it, and most of the other grand conspiracy theories, start to become unrealistic. It would be impossible to keep the secret from coming out.
But it would make a great plot for thriller novel.
Re:The Emperor's New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity
by EdwardDiego on Saturday November 20, 2021 @09:58PM
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I'm reasonably certain Cussler, Clancy, or Chrichton have done subsets of this at least.