If I were a pharmaceutical giant, the bio-weapons virus thing would suit me just fine. It would fit in well with my strategy that people believe in the omnipotence of bioweapons panhandling. After all, if they believe in artificially produced viruses, then they also believe in "natural" ones, and that is how I am and remain in business. It is far cheaper than producing real weapons that make much more noise, take up much more space, flatten lots of buildings, landscape and people. But something you can't see, smell, taste or touch is an excellent weapon, because if no one can really be sure whether it really exists or not, I can keep people in a state of uncertainty. Ingenious, I would think. Using the insecure state, coupled with people thinking of themselves as stupid and others as experts who write in awe-inspiring grammar, assures me that no one will be able to claim that they really know what is going on in their own bodies. The code is always superior to, isn't it?

So, if I were an aesthete who didn't have it with managing drones, tanks, aircraft carriers and other heavy equipment, plus all the soldiers, pharma is just the business. It's quiet, clean and basically still usable through penetrating grammar even in the greatest contradiction.

Such a pawn would be well worth it. I wouldn't lift a finger to help the person being sacrificed in this way, because in fact everyone knows that people like to have guilty ones.

Thankfully, I am not a pharma giant. Not even someone, who takes pills at all.