BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ISN'T NEW.

Representation of blankets being given to American Indians by colonial Americans. 

Whether or not the current pandemic was unleashed upon the world by accidental crossover between species is a moot point at this time. It has been established that the Chinese Communist government did manipulate information about the contagion via W.H.O. and the American C.D.C. to benefit itself economically and socially at a time of political unrest and confrontation on its trade policies by the USA. In other words, the current viral pandemic was weaponized by China.

The extreme response of governments globally has most likely been fueled by their realization that this was possibly an attack, not simply a natural contagion. But this reaction seems disingenuous to any student of things biological in history.

The intentional infection with smallpox of Massachusetts native American tribes by British soldiers in colonial New England in the 18th century was allegedly biological warfare. And, the mysterious widespread infection of gay men in the developed world with HIV in the late 1970s, despite the virus being known to biologists as an African crossover from green monkeys since the 1950s, may also have been a weaponized contagion against a newly assertive population of social pariahs. Patient Zero of that time may be comparable to Patient Zero of Wuhan.

The weaponization of today's pandemic lies more squarely in the defense against it than in the introduction of it. That is to say that a comparable defense against HIV would have seen the concentration camps (quarantine) for gay men in The West, which were actually discussed at the outbreak of AIDS. It is coincidental that Dr. Fauci of the C.D.C. is a veteran of the HIV epidemic, during which he was far from universally popular in the gay male community.

The U.S.A.'s current government lockdown, or even an incarceration of HIV+ gay men, would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. But, 40 years ago the U.S.A. and The West in general did not have a gigantic competitor in Asia. The difference between then and now lies in the power of The Chinese Communist Party.

Perhaps this current pandemic is being viewed by politicians and military analysts as a biological shot across the bow of Western Democracy. If so, perhaps the reactions to it are a drill, not unlike the drills of my childhood in the 1950s, wherein we huddled under our school desks as defense against an imagined Russian nuclear attack. Those drills were pure flights of fantasy, and so are today's shutdowns. The latter are actually as self-damaging as they are useless against an engineered biological attack. Everyone will inevitably be exposed to the current pandemic agent eventually.

And wouldn't it be just like Chinese tactitions to devise a weapon which causes the victim to harm themselves without any evidence pointing back to them as perpetrators? Something very kung fu about it actually. Tapping into The West's obsessive fear of Sickness, Aging and Death has proven to be quite easy. Turning it upon itself has proven to be amazingly effective. A stellar economic period in the U.S.A. turned into a black hole overnight, coincidentally right after tariffs were placed on Chinese trade and after the U.S.A.'s official support of democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.  

Biological warfare may become the next stage of human conflict on an international scale. Destructive wars are wasteful at a time when the Earth is environmentally exploited to the point of potential breakdowns in human quality of life. Nuclear war would be extinction. Poisonous gases are too obvious. Until robots are perfected as avatars for human soldiers, biological warfare could serve the purpose for nations or consortia which want to remain somewhat unidentifiable as perpetrators or aggressors. 

The ability to shrug off the current pandemic as "natural" has to date spared China retaliation by the world for weaponizing a virus. This is convenient for all concerned, since China holds concrete power of supply globally. The global quality of life for those with money depends on China. Cars, TVs, phones, prescription drugs, and almost everything else, are sourced from China. And the Chinese themselves depend on this for the elevation of their own quality of life internally.

Globalism has brought us here. Those who saw globalism as stamping out the risks of war must now rethink that supposition. That supposition ignores the human quest for power, fueled by greed and mistrust. Rearranging the logistics of the human condition cannot change the human condition itself for the better. That will require long term change and evolution. of what is essentially human.