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•extremely rare version that can pass from person to person
•pops up 800 miles from its closest recorded habitat
•in a cruise ship, the perfect floating incubator for massive global transmission
This sounds like a bio-weapon deployment.
Weaponized hantavirus? It's probably a short list of countries that could even do it, and the blowback would be extreme if a western country ever authorized it and it was leaked. I think China already got hurt by the Coronovirus shutdowns, I doubt they would want to roll the dice on something like that again. China is already winning economically in the status quo, no need to kick the table over.
Targeting a cruise ship is a little too slapdash for countries with the means to do it.
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Come on, is this where we're at? Most people on cruise ships live elsewhere. They're only on the cruise ship as tourists.
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