If so, it’s a poor one. 2.2% fatality rate and a very poor virulence. It’s been in the wild since December in a densely populated area of 15 million and under 15,000 reported infections and fewer than 300 deaths. That’s not a weapon.
this does seem engineered/designed/weaponized
the rising prevalance and rising
death rate is higher than SARS
there are very few recoveries so far.
the four HIV inserts are unlikely to be natural.
“Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.”
Ian Fleming
It appears to be highly contagious.
The oft repeated 2.2% assumes everyone merely sick will recover. The only <heavy sarcasm quote>reliable</heavy sarcasm quote> statistic, those died vs those recovered shows fatality rates of between 51 and 54%. IOW, anyone ending up in an ICU has a less than 50% chance of walking out.
Those people who've only been sick a few days or weeks don't count as dead, the disease hasn't run it's course, they are effectively Schrödinger's patients. Status to be determined when someone peeks inside their box.
It's virulent enough to shut down everything in cities with some 100 million or so people in the space of a little over a month.
It may yet crash the world economy.
How much more virulent does it need to be?