<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:26 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Designing COVID-19 from the ground up or even starting with SARS is<br>
what I was talking about as being beyond the state of the art.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Here I agree - making a new bad virus completely from scratch, without copying large chunks of code from existing viruses, is still beyond the state of the art. But, the Wuhan virus is not very novel, it's definitely doable with the right viral sample library in your freezer.</div><div><br></div><div>I am sure the Wuhan freezers are full of very... interesting viral samples.</div><div><br></div><div>RafalĀ </div></div></div>