Are we in the age of covert biowarfare? - Why a high school simulation exercise has got my noggin joggin

[Doctor Love]

if there was one group of people who I would trust with contagious disease research, it'd be the ones who have survived this long in Africa.

To expand, since this is a rabbit hole I went down years ago and forgot about:

South Africa, and Israel by extension, developed secretive technology right through to the end of Apartheid. Israel's protective nature of their DNA is probably to do with it. White South Africans were essentially stranded by most of the world, so developed an entire arsenal of unique, secret biological weapons. A handful of them have been investigated, but most of what they got up to is still secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Coast

This is a rough overview, but the people involved readily talk to other Afrikaners. It seems like it's an open secret for them.

One part of this was the production of weaponised cocaine. They could aerosolise cocaine, LSD, MDMA and Valium for use in crowd control. They also produced massive quantities of it, including some kind of synthesised cocaine, to sell to anti-apartheid activists.

Very interesting piece in here about the use of sterilising weapons.

It doesn't just extend to medicine, either. South Africa was "outside of" the current order, and had to conduct scientific research by itself. A huge chunk of their research, some of which is still employed, is directly opposed to our own governments. For example - South Africa produces 0.25mln barrels of oil a day. South Africa doesn't have any oil reserves. They liquify coal. China does it, now, too.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Probably not, biowarfare became a lot less popular because it's extremely difficult if not impossible to avoid effects in your own country from use of them. Diseases don't limit their spread to the enemy, all it takes is a single misstep and you could wipe out your own people, environment or agriculture.

Plus since they're alive they can survive and be dangerous for a very long time after the initial exposure. Gruinard Island in Scotland where anthrax was tested is a great example.

 

[snowdunes]

Biowarfare doesn't have to be viruses and diseases, sometimes it's just invasive species terrorising people. Yes, we are in the age of covert biowarfare.

Spoiler: Modern Biowarfare

 

[Bonesjones]

Would not be surprising. Actually a surprisingly benign explanation for all the "interracial relationships are the best kind of relationships" media depictions.

Lmao no. We are actually discovering interracial kids are genetic messes with all sorts of unforseen problems. Like no matching organ donors because neither parents are matches and neither are siblings.

Sort of like how all of the suburban sprawl that everyone loves to hate about America happened because Cold War nuclear projections indicated that this organization of cities and suburbs would make it very hard to kill off half of the American population.

Suburbs sprawled because with the rise of the automobile, we aren't tethered to mass transit and can live were we want. Nuclear war worries are a last place concern.

 

[Invective Mass]

I really hate to say it, but I remember Julian Assange mentioning smart dust being integrated into the world population before he was handed over in 2018. And, much a worse implication would involve the claims of Carrie Madej and Project Veritas' unaired expose on what was seen within a smuggled Pfizer Covid vaccine under a microscope.
If that isnt covert biowarfare, I don't know what else would be.