artical in bio shares, page-11

LO,

I was fond of Sav V1 for the enthusiasm contributed. Sav 2.0 has taken it to a whole new level. Maybe this is one of the side effects of popping BIT225 on the side?

Your most recent post reignites the issue of resistance in drugs like sofusbuvir. Despite all the protests and denials from some that this will happen, or is even likely, we all know resistance is a real problem. And while we know this is a natural process one has to wonder ......

I recall back in the 80s when somebody first talked to my about computer viruses. "What" I said. "How can a computer get a virus?". In the decades since we have discovered what mischievous humans are capable of. It seems to have started with certain individuals exploring what could be achieved with interupts then some of them got bored and decided to play a prank on others, then it just got out of hand as viruses escaped into the wild.

In the decades since people have figured out not only how to be annoying but corporations, groups and now governments have developed viruses for their own commercial and political purposes. They now plaugue the entire IT industry and effect almost every individual, corporation and government on the planet. Yet there is no genuine reason for them to exist.

So, at this point its probably obvious what I'm concerned about. If individuals, companies and governments are capable of killing for their own purposes (as we know they are), if they are capable of wreaping havock and mass damage to systems and data across the world, if they are capable of stealing personal data and selling it to willing buyers who know it was harvested by illicit means, why would we not think that there are people, companies and/or governments (if there is actually a difference) deriving and releasing strains of biological viruses that suit their needs.

While it may be a hidious thought, it is beyond any doubt that money and power encourages people to do truely aweful things. Governments have been paying corporations for many decades to produce both chemical and biologic weapons so any doubt that people with the funds to do such a things and the power to conceal it is not really a point of serious debate. And we aren't talking about mischievous 3rd world governments either are we.

So I ask, given the tens of billions of dollars at stake, the national interests etc, is it conceivable that resistant strains could emerge making certain drugs less effective and opening pathways for others from different corporations which might mysteriously not be susceptable to the same resistance issue?

Obviously this comment doesn't relate to any specifc drug, company, corporation or government but given the money at stake is it even conceivable that somebody, somewhere isn't already looking at what they could be paid to either release or not release certain viral strains into the wild? Disgusting thought I know but reality is much more so.