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Anti-Plague Research Institute
I bet I know what this mystery virus is
“Anti Plague Research Institute”.
That’s a funny way of translating “Illegal Biological Warfare Institute”.
”You poor guy. You look like ka-ka!”
Best Randall Flagg ever!
Wow. What’s Putin doing, manufacturing plague to deal with Ukraine?
Always has been.
The USSR from the Stalin era onwards had world-leading biological and chemical weapons programmes, largely due to having plenty of test subjects in the gulag system.
There are very legitimate reasons to be doing research like this. Every developed nation pretty much has labs like this.
However, that isn't to say none of these are attempting to make weapons. The issue is research for a weapon like this looks pretty much identical to the good kind of research. The only way to know the difference would be getting your hands on documents saying it's for a weapon.
So if Putin calls it the Anti-Plague Research Institute we can be pretty sure they're actively creating plagues right?
Prep for chemical warfare. Putin's last act as a desperate man.
I don't care if it's the first act of Henry the Fifth, that's a bit much.
Kobzev stated that all identified close contacts remain asymptomatic and have tested negative.
How do someone test a virus that is "unknown"...?
It's not a virus, and it's not unknown.
its the pneumonic plague, so not a virus, but Yersinia pestis, aka the black death.