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A weapons grade virus has to be powerful enough to eliminate large numbers of enemy military - i.e. make them unable to "fight". Since Covid-19 is almost invisible to military age men (and women) it is probably the world's worst bio weapon. You do not stop any enemy by killing their grandparents... you make them angry and even more eager to fight you.
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@gooseman4861 Survival rate among military is quite high even with minimal care - similar to Spanish flu. Spanish flu did not exactly interfered in WWI fighting despite some estimates putting casualties at up to 50 million. Given there were so few people on earth in 1918 such death rates today would easily mean 200m dead. Gives you perspective of what was needed to stop a war - virus would need to be at least as deadly as MERS - i.e. even with ideal care we are talking upto 20% dead among general population. Thus in military with minimal care it could go up to 30% or at least 25% with survivors not exactly "combat ready".
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@gooseman4861 Most Covid positive soldiers, like 99% can rejoin combat after a week or so. If this was weapons grade stuff in addition to 20% lethality and 95% of survivors not really combat ready for a while (like few weeks to a month) there would be ready vaccine for it. I.e. you would not use bio weapon that you did not had protection against. After all it would be inevitable for your own troops to get sick. And then everyone dies. No. You would have ready vaccine at least for your frontline troops.
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