Opinion: Coming to terms with the real bioterrorist behind Covid-19: nature
In 2001, not long after the 9/11 attacks, a mysterious spate of anthrax attacks by mail killed five people and sickened 17. What the FBI calls “the worst biological attacks in U.S. history” led to concerns that bioterrorists might weaponize other globally deadly diseases, like smallpox.
The sudden emergence of a highly infectious novel coronavirus in late 2019 has reminded us of a sobering fact: Nature is the ultimate bioterrorist. It’s the one we should fear the most. An unknown virus that once existed only in nature quietly entered a major city in China sometime before the end of 2019 and then spread rapidly around the world. As we write this, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has already killed nearly 860,000 people.
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