Or someone with more biological knowledge to know what a real bio-weapon outbreak looks like. If you really want to make a bio-weapon you would take something truly lethal, infectious and difficult to treat. Smallpox would be a prime candidate. Extremely difficult to treat, spreads like the plague and due to it being labeled exterminated no country would expect it.
Corona is just a bad case of the flu (in terms of lethality) and most deaths are due to people with a weakened immune system or an opportunistic infection from another disease (MRSA is still a bitch).
All in all it is quite fun to see China trying to sweep the outbreak under the rug which causes it to spread even more. It also makes a lot of countries reconsidering placing manufactoring back into the western world (no backwater culture that insists on eating bat soup should be responsible for production)
1800 wasn't all that better. The shit we did with food for just profit was terrible (heavy metals in flour was quite common).
However this corona virus just seems to me a normal mutation due to extremely bad hygiene (there is a reason that we keep cooked/raw meat and live animals seperate in the west). The Chinese government has tried to cover this up due to the damage it will cause to their economy especially with the US being strict on trade and a Hong Kong creating one hell of a riot. There are more interesting viruses for use in biological warfare and Corona isn't one of those.
It is the same family as the flu. It is just a new strain. SARS is also a flu strain. The reason it caused more fatalities is due to no vaccine available as the flu isn't curable only preventible/treatable. Which is why you should get the yearly vaccines if you are in a risk group.
Edit: completely off disregard this
Don't want to spoil your fun but it is something quite common in the Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbsUr2kzx-g
As soon as the traitor pope is removed