Humanity Is Domesticating One of Its Oldest Predators Responsible for the Deaths of Millions

Red State ^ | March 12, 2025 | Brandon Morse

[DugwayDuke]

One of the most interesting things about humanity is how it manages to take something dangerous to it, and make it useful to itself.

We took wolves and domesticated them, turning them into dogs, which have done everything from help us hunt, find dangerous items, warn us of impending danger, or even just sit on our laps and lower our blood pressure.

Mankind does a lot of things with its miraculous intelligence, but one of the things it's actually best at is taming that which threatens us.

And it looks like mankind has now gotten around to taming one of its oldest and most deadly predators of all...

The virus.

That said, there are labs out there that are attempting to change the virus to help humankind, not harm it, and it would appear they're already having success.

The idea is that we effectively take viruses, one of our deadliest enemies, and effectively "reprogram" it to attack the things that attack us, effectively making the wolf into a dog all over again.

[Lazamataz]

This is exactly how the Zombie Apocalypse starts.

[BenLurkin]

there are labs out there that are attempting to change the virus to help humankind, not harm it

Swell

[Lazamataz]

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/fyi-could-scientists-really-create-zombie-apocalypse-virus/

[Fledermaus]

Read the book. Andromeda Strain.

[Lazamataz]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Lazamataz]

https://youtu.be/y7voToyTmOE

[HYPOCRACY]

Just watched the movie the other day. Take a deep breath.

[Lazamataz]

Take a deep breath.

That's JUST what a Zombie Scientist would say.

[Tell It Right]

A few years ago it was supposedly a conspiracy to say that covid was made in a lab. Now at Red State (Red State!?!?) we’re about engineering viruses in the lab to help us, like it’s some kind of good thing.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is exactly how the Zombie Apocalypse starts.

So interested in what they can do that they never think about if they should do it in the first place.

[Da Coyote]

One of the prime rules: Double-tap.

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm training fire ants to pollinate flowers, give honey and do my landscaping.

Perhaps these researchers would like to test my results on their lawns?

[Magnum44]

[DugwayDuke]

Fledermaus wrote: “Read the book. Andromeda Strain.”

Suggest you read that book.
“In Michael Crichton’s novel “The Andromeda Strain,” the deadly extraterrestrial organism is not a virus, but a unique, crystalline lifeform that lacks DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids, and has a unique method of energy transformation.”

[ETCM]

This is exactly how the Zombie Apocalypse starts.

I just hope we get the slow and stupid zombies from The Walking Dead, and not the speedy ones from World War Z. I have plenty of ammo, but my cardio ain't what it used to be.

[HYPOCRACY]

[DugwayDuke]

I’ll put you guys down as opposing cancer research and cures.

[MayflowerMadam]

“engineering viruses in the lab to help us,”

A young relative of mine was having serious issues with her eyes — some rare disease. I think that one of the methods that was proving successful had to do with introducing a “good” virus that attacked the problem cells.