Tnuvu t1_j9vb0y4 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 8:35 PM

This has soo much potential to be weaponized, think about it, you make a carrier immune and then ship him to infect everything he touches with a potentially deadly virus.

Can we please for the love of all things holy stop with the search for gain of function, we still haven't really got over the last mess someone created out of "coincidence"

Fake_William_Shatner t1_j9x3i6n wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:35 AM

This doesn’t look like gain of function but overall resistance. Surviving doesn’t make you more of a carrier but, yes, you still might be walking around if undiagnosed.

I think the countries that are able to weaponize a virus are few, and it would be very hard without being obvious. Infecting a population isn’t that hard, so no point in developing immune super carriers. Better to use propaganda to tell people to ignore their experts. Then you have the big problem; you can’t be sure how effective an attack is and if it is, that it won’t come back and bite you. And of course, the rest of the world would be very pissed.

Viruses are not good weapons and they would do more to make your enemy have the resolve to go to war than anything else.