How to create a virus that completely evades vaccine

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The discussion centers around Paul Biensiasz's Twitter commentary titled "musings of a pissed virologist," which critiques COVID-19 containment policies rather than providing a blueprint for creating a virus that evades vaccines. The conversation highlights concerns about the potential misuse of scientific research, drawing parallels to the development of designer drugs from marijuana studies. Additionally, it mentions the ease of synthesizing smallpox using modern techniques, emphasizing the risks associated with virology and synthetic biology.

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Paul Biensiasz is a virologist at Rockefeller Medical, he authored this on twitter, titled "musings of a
pissed virologist"
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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.
 
jedishrfu said:
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
 
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A virus made from nanotechnology.
 
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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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