How to create a virus that completely evades vaccine

[jim mcnamara]

Paul Biensiasz is a virologist at Rockefeller Medical, he authored this on twitter, titled "musings of a
pissed virologist"

 

[jedishrfu]

One can only hope that some bad actor skilled in the art doesn’t take this paper as a high level blueprint for a designer virus such as happened with research into marijuana that devolved into K2 and other designer drugs.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

One can only hope that some bad actor skilled in the art doesn’t take this paper as a high level blueprint for a designer virus such as happened with research into marijuana that devolved into K2 and other designer drugs.

It's not so much a "blueprint" for designing a virus, but a satirical criticism of policy decisions surrounding COVID-19 containment measures.

Also, there's no need to make designer viruses, when it would be pretty easy just to artificially synthesize smallpox and unleash that: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...-extinct-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna

 

[Flatland]

A virus made from nanotechnology.

 

[b.shahvir]

A virus made from nanotechnology.

Why would you want to do that? There's enough hell on Earth thanks to the SARS-CoV-2 virus!

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