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What if something as infectious as COVID 19 but far more deadly were somehow released?

I know very little about virus manipulation, but that shouldn't be outside the realm, if some country wanted to do it.  Maybe they'd vaccinate their own people first?

More Than Three-Quarters of Americans 16 and Older Have Been Infected With COVID: CDC (usnews.com)

Presuming this is roughly correct, most of us here had it at some point.  I did not so far as I know, I never had COVID symptoms of any sort.

Ostensibly, a lab somewhere that had experts in a field of interest could merit funding so as to better understand that field, in this case, a pathogen.

One thought is the COVID 19 was a precursor to something more deadly and leaked prematurely by accident.  Another thought is that it was relatively "innocent" experimentation to understand how the virus might evolve/change in nature.

We'll never know for sure, I think.  It was pretty deadly for older folks with poor immune systems.  

(Reuters) - At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.


Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

“COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!” one typical tweet from July 2020 read in Tagalog. The words were next to a photo of a syringe beside a Chinese flag and a soaring chart of infections. Another post read: “From China – PPE, Face Mask, Vaccine: FAKE. But the Coronavirus is real.”

After Reuters asked X about the accounts, the social media company removed the profiles, determining they were part of a coordinated bot campaign based on activity patterns and internal data.


The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined. Tailoring the propaganda campaign to local audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Pentagon used a combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to spread fear of China’s vaccines among Muslims at a time when the virus was killing tens of thousands of people each day. A key part of the strategy: amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.

The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.


The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so.

Spokespeople for Trump and Biden did not respond to requests for comment about the clandestine program.

A senior Defense Department official acknowledged the U.S. military engaged in secret propaganda to disparage China’s vaccine in the developing world, but the official declined to provide details.

A Pentagon spokeswoman said the U.S. military “uses a variety of platforms, including social media, to counter those malign influence attacks aimed at the U.S., allies, and partners.” She also noted that China had started a “disinformation campaign to falsely blame the United States for the spread of COVID-19.”

In an email, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it has long maintained the U.S. government manipulates social media and spreads misinformation.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pentagon-ran-secret-anti-vax-campaign-to-undermine-china-during-pandemic/ar-BB1oeXxQ?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=cbd9a62b31b842aaa25ac62e3736356c&ei=32

Only a complete f*cking moron would believe the US gov't doesn't run propaganda operations on it's own citizens. Reuters is a mother f*cking joke.

DoD has a specific department that has worked closely with the movie & television industry in Hollywood to push it's propaganda since DoD's inception in 1947 and before that since at least 1943 with the OSS (the precursor of the CIA).

CIA has infiltrated corporate media, big tech/social media, wikipedia, you name it. They are housed in DoD. Hate to break it to Reuters, but the DoD, state department, and white house pump nothing but pure propaganda to the American people and have their tentacles all wrapped inside the worthless corporate media and the film & television industries.

China closed airports to internal travel and locked down to the point of welding doors shut.

They did not shut down international travel.

Connect the dots. This is not hard.

You fund viral research to learn more and use it in positive ways.

well, if well meaning dems ruled the world

wait............ they're not perfect either
positive ways can mean eliminating you're adversaries

How sick did you feel?  What were your symptoms?

The first 12 hours were chills, body ache, and just extreme fatigue.  Felt like the flu.  After that the next 24 hours it was really just fatigue. Slept a lot. Didn’t move around a lot.  After that I felt fine for the most part.

I hope he's wrong

I don't think it would have been exactly the same