The bad guy in a movie who creates a plague is usually given these supervillain motivations - they *want* to indiscriminately harm as many people as possible and they *don't want* to take credit, they want people to just think it's an act of God and react unpredictably
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In real life, it's pretty unlikely to find an actor who combines *both* of these traits and also has millions of dollars and access to the world's top medical researchers
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Well... There is one, and, it's why they are illegal. Weapons of Terrorization, rather then of any particular strategic goal. They prey rarely on soldiers or military, and instead much more on civilians and the infirm, so it's an... Effective, if evil, way to smash morale.
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the problem with that idea, as the current pandemic is illustrating, is that that shit gets out of hand and infects everyone, including your item allies and also you
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Yeah, it has high morbidity and low (comparatively speaking) mortality, which a bioweapon is supposed to have (at least by American military standards), but it should also affect the young, healthy population the most. This would be a shitty one.
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This also applied funny enough to other WMDs (though it's particularly bad with bioweapons). Nukes and chemical weapons are stockpiled but rarely used because they're as likely to literally or metaphorically blowback on the user.
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Although oddly that's a pretty terrifying argument for using bioweapons in interstellar warfare with multiple sapient species.
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