Triggered Collapse, Part 2: Viral Pandemics
Drew Miller
February 5, 2020
The nation currently faces an age of bioengineered viral pandemics and collapse. Advances in
biotechnology enable nations, terrorist groups, or even lone wolves to create genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) such as a human-to-human transmissible version of avian flu or to modify a lethal virus
to facilitate a longer period of contagion and undetected spread before symptoms manifest.
Bioengineering enables almost anyone to modify and release a new virus that, in addition to a pandemic,
could cause an ensuing collapse in economic activity as well as loss of law and order as people react to
the threat. Some experts say that the threat of a natural or bioengineered viral pandemic is already
here. As it becomes increasingly easier to modify existing pathogens, the threat will also rise as these
pathogens are made to be more lethal and more transmissible.
