[samtheman]

Then inoculate your populace.
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But how do you inoculate your populace against a disease that hasn’t been released yet?

One way would be to have a vaccine that spreads like a virus, then you don’t have to openly inoculate anyone.

And maybe that was the intention here, but somebody took the wrong bottle to the wet market and opened it.

Oops.

[Pontiac]

One way would be to have a vaccine that spreads like a virus, then you don’t have to openly inoculate anyone.

Very much like they intentionally infected people with cow pox to prevent the more deadly small pox in the 18th century.

The only problem with the idea is how do you contain the inoculating virus within your boarders.

If it escapes and inoculates the enemy your work on the deadly version is useless.

[Jamestown1630]

'But how do you inoculate your populace against a disease that hasn’t been released yet? One way would be to have a vaccine that spreads like a virus, then you don’t have to openly inoculate anyone.'

That's an interesting theory.

But isn't a virus itself a natural vaccine, for those who survive it?

I don't think the Chicoms would care much about losing a million or so people in the pursuit of a powerful bioweapon - ends/means, &c,

(Removing the 'tin' foil, now...)