Weaponizing A Virus

[Darts]

Here's a scary thought. What if a rogue nation were to weaponize a virus and spread it around. That virus could kill our citizens and/or destroy our economy.

(The Spaniards did something similar with smallpox in South America.)

 

[jerimander]

Here's a scary thought. What if a rogue nation were to weaponize a virus and spread it around. That virus could kill our citizens and/or destroy our economy.

(The Spaniards did something similar with smallpox in South America.)

Isn't that exactly what China did?

 

[wazup]

Isn't that exactly what China did?

I believe that was the inclination, also called sarcasm.

 

[shack]

I think the prospect of somebody or some entity unleashing a deadly virus has been around a very long time. They've probably also made some movies about it.

 

[Darts]

"Two Empires Destroyed. Unleashed in the wake of Spanish conquistadores, smallpox quickly killed about half the Aztec population. The outbreak then raced south, killing the Inca emperor and sparking a civil war—further clearing the way for the Spanish invaders.Jul 15, 2020"

Centuries after spreading smallpox, the Spanish led a global campaign to fight it

Colonizers brought Old World diseases to the Americas, devastating indigenous populations. Nearly 300 years later the Spanish king ordered an ambitious mission involving orphans, warships, and the first vaccine to fight one of the deadliest of all.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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The Spaniards had immunity, the natives did not.

 

[shack]

"Two Empires Destroyed. Unleashed in the wake of Spanish conquistadores, smallpox quickly killed about half the Aztec population. The outbreak then raced south, killing the Inca emperor and sparking a civil war—further clearing the way for the Spanish invaders.Jul 15, 2020"

Centuries after spreading smallpox, the Spanish led a global campaign to fight it

Colonizers brought Old World diseases to the Americas, devastating indigenous populations. Nearly 300 years later the Spanish king ordered an ambitious mission involving orphans, warships, and the first vaccine to fight one of the deadliest of all.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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The Spaniards had immunity, the natives did not.

Did the Spaniards do this intentionally to use a weapon? That is the topic that you wanted to discuss.

 

[Darts]

"Some speculate the 15th century Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro first introduced smallpox as a biological weapon by offering the Incas gifts of cloth possibly laden with smallpox during his conquest of Peru."

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.or...-new-threat-what-todays-risk-smallpox/2002-09