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So.

A new variant appears out of nowhere with a completely unclear evolution pathway, spreads twice as fast as Delta (despite not being related to Delta) and causes only mild symptoms - despite researchers saying that the coronavirus likely has not much evolutionary pressure to reduce lethality.

I guess "positive" conspiracy theories are less appealing, but I'm surprised there has not been any speculation yet that some "good samaritans" could have bioengineered this variant in an attempt to end the pandemic.



Like a self-replicating contagious vaccine.

I've always wondered about this in the context of computing. Why no one creates "virus" that infect a machine, fix the exploit and spread to others using the same exploit used by the original virus. Like an immune system for the network.


No profit.


There was a guy in march 2020 trying to contact Gates directly with this idea - engineering less dangerous coronavirus and purposefully infecting everyone to push covid19 to the margins. I think he even posted here asking for help.


I mean, it'd be another Pandora's box that can't be closed. It maybe sounds nice until a variant of it emerges with dangerous characteristics that is also a hyper spreader.


> and causes only mild symptoms

I'm a little concerned that people continue to state this as fact. It's very early to be assuming it, based on very limited data.




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