I sure hope you are wrong about this bioweaponization of monkeypox, but it wouldn't exactly surprise me either. I heard one of the more credible stories about COVID-19 was that Chinese researchers were trying to either develop a bioweapon or were trying to develop vaccines against a future bioweapon and thus drove evolution of COVID to a more and more dangerous disease, then someone leaked it from the lab. I never did buy the "bat stew" theory. Did you hear Russia boasting about its latest ICBM, named "SATAN-2?" Putin is just crazy and desperate enough to fire off tactical nuke in Ukraine and start WW3, rather than concede defeat and resign as President. And apparently he's had 1,000 of his Staff fired over his paranoia (may be a legit one) that someone may try to poison him. I think he is the kind of leader who would rather end the world than admit defeat. Their video of nuking England and boasting about this 500 meter tsunami or using their SATAN-2 ICBM both were disturbing, and Putin and Lavrov both keep saying we aren't taking their threat of nuclear war seriously enough. Its always been just a matter of time, since Oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb, but especially since the hydrogen bomb, the ability to destroy all live 10 times over has been a code and button away. Sooner or later someone is going to hit that button. Monkeypox is a trivial threat (unless weaponized) compared to nuclear armageddeon. The US has some missile defense but it is designed to handle a North Korea attack. We can't defend against a Russian attack, and China is building ICBMs at an alarming rate too. And that doesn't even count their hypersonic missiles that we can't even shoot down one.