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> This is laughably misinformed. You can in fact build a bio weapon in a glorified shed if you know what you're doing.

This is pure ignorance and or thinking it can be done like shown in TV shows or movies. Any bio-weapon that is effective would be a virus/bacteria that is propagated via air particles like Antrax. That's not something you can build in a shed because without the safety precaution the person creating it would be the first victim of it.

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> This is pure ignorance

I have relevant professional experience but do spout off.

> That's not something you can build in a shed

A negative pressure enclosure, filtration, and UVC sterilization can't be built in a shed? On what basis do you make this seemingly absurd claim? Go check out what hobbyist mushroom growers commonly get up to in their back yard.

BSL-3 is far from technically complex. It's just safety critical to an absurd degree thus (rightfully) mired in bureaucracy.


> A negative pressure enclosure, filtration, and UVC sterilization can't be built in a shed?

Don’t even have to DIY anything, the equipment is often found in liquidation auctions for a few hundred bucks a piece. A decent lab can be had with a few thousand bucks and a pickup truck. The harder part is getting proper Sigma Aldrich access for the really interesting reagents.




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