Do drug companies release viruses into the population to increase sales of their products?

I had not heard that theory before. But I have read several places that in order to reduce the world's population that the moneyed elite pay their scientists to mutate known viruses and then infect the unaware and clueless, which means us. This is supposed to be were the AIDs virus originated from and purposely and maliciously was used to kill people. I have also read that decades ago many types of cancers had a cure but for the same reasons millions of people have died. I have no way to prove this one way or another but it is certainly an interesting, yet disturbing subject.

The problem here is one from science. See, viruses are only one vector for illness and conditions that require pharmaceuticals treatments. There are also bacteria, fungi, chemical exposure, organics, genetics, etc. Additionally, viruses are one group of microorganisms that respond to very few drugs; viral infections are typically a matter of the treatment of symptoms, not the organism.

There is also the mutagenic nature of viruses. The fact is that in the wild (as opposed to captive in a lab), viruses have the nasty tendency to both mutate, and cause mutations within their hosts. This makes them truly unpredictable and difficult (nearly impossible) to control.

So, that being said, it is almost the height of paranoia to speculate on whether pharm would attempt something so supremely foolhardy when they control the supply of medications, so control their profit margin. And, the pharmaceutical companies name their own price.

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