Re: Hmm. Signalling?
much safer/commonsense to kill something dead
That's fine if you have some alternative to fall back on - and that alternative is better. I have yet to be convinced that smashing something to pieces and passing the buck to other people to build something better is as brilliant a universal policy as our new overlords seem to think. If it were, they should just release the nukes now.
Actually, given Dom now has access to an actual bunker and there's a potential viral pandemic, that might not be so fantastic: here's his opportunity to rebuild humanity from a carefully self-selected group of superior beings - in their own minds.