Why is this comment buried here? It's literally the solution! Do people love the thrill of panicking? Internet, you so silly sometimes...

its the pneumonic plague, so not a virus, but Yersinia pestis, aka the black death.

The test is also unknown.

Something about this image gave me temporary Dyslexia.

Well looking through the list of symptoms, it makes you murderous and violent, you never seem to die a natural death, and all you want to do in life is destroy the brains of the woke.

...I guess they've already got it.

It’s like bills with titles that say the opposite of what they achieve.

Well, this time around, MAGA conservatives have proven that they can indeed wear masks so maybe... naw. They'll come up with some reason not to again.

I mean... Aren't the conservatives going to do that anyway?

They'll mostly be successful in killing their own voter base, which would ultimately turn out positively?

I gotta get a bidet this time around

There are very legitimate reasons to be doing research like this. Every developed nation pretty much has labs like this.

However, that isn't to say none of these are attempting to make weapons. The issue is research for a weapon like this looks pretty much identical to the good kind of research. The only way to know the difference would be getting your hands on documents saying it's for a weapon.

Always has been.

The USSR from the Stalin era onwards had world-leading biological and chemical weapons programmes, largely due to having plenty of test subjects in the gulag system.