It keeps coming back, doesn’t it?
Today’s Telegraph has another article which puts the blame, for the current plague, back in the hands of the Chinese.
They’re, probably, not the only ones who are thought to be developing chemical weapons, we might name others, but, surely, it’s time for the So Called World Leaders to find a way of agreeing to stop doing this?
Global Warming gets much coverage, even though, usually, in promise mode, without much reality in terms of action, but Chemical Spillage might kill us all off well before Global Warming does?
Here’s what the DT article is saying:-
" For much of the last 18 months it has been widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but no longer. Last week, molecular biologist Alina Chan told Parliament’s Science and Technology Select Committee that it is ‘more likely than not’ that the Covid pandemic initially came from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. ‘We all agree there was a critical event at the [Wuhan] wet market that was a superspreader event caused by humans,’ she said. ‘But there is no evidence pointing to a natural animal origin of the virus at that market.’
There is also nothing to suggest that it was anything other than accidental. But since it’s only a short step from the inadvertent release of a virus to the deliberate dissemination of one, Dr Chan’s statement has put the spotlight on what such lab leaks could mean for the future of biological warfare.
‘Before Covid, getting people to take biosecurity seriously was a big challenge,’ says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Visiting Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. ‘It used to be that terrorists wanted an instantaneous bang, but biological weapons are generally quite slow to take effect and don’t spark that immediate shock. But if Covid had been a terrorist attack, it would have been the biggest one in the history of the world. Biological weapons are the ultimate terror weapon, and their massive impact - if successful - is what terror is about.’
Any terrorist attack has three main aims: body count, societal disruption and the spread of fear. Terrorists want to deny us safe space, shrinking the areas in which we feel we can move unencumbered: and by definition there is no greater denial of that than rendering our own bodies dangerous. As the pandemic has shown, the primary effect of a virus – that is, the physiological effect on sufferers – is only one part of the picture. The secondary effects - economic disruption, other health problems left untreated, mental health – are just as devastating, and can last longer. A virus is a perfect force multiplier; a stone cast into society’s pond which ripples outwards to affect almost every part."
