A pox party would work. Given the strain will be infectious like the dangerous strains it is not going to be too hard to spread it around.
You can look at it from the other perspective - once identified it would be impossible to stop people spreading it around on their own. Let’s say one of you friends got infected with this “safe” strain you would quickly head over to their home for a cup of tea and a good chat.
Thanks for the thoughts @danieltillett. I'm sorry you are not getting more traction on the idea. I'd sign up for this if I had this!
IANAL but I did run an infection detection medical diagnostics startup for 3yrs that I co-founded. Since we're on HN, perhaps here is how you might get traction (note, i'm just throwing this out move-fast-and-break-things-style for the sake of brainstorming):
1. Form a company, announce the idea bigtime! (Incorporate overseas for liability protection?)
2. Sell a sequencing service that tells you the strain you have -- offer no medical advice. Not a diagnostic for medical purposes, more like 23&me (does this get around regs?)
3. Offer a free matching service to find locals with the strain, perhaps with an app to validate their strain, etc. (some incentive for the customer?)
Note this isn't legal advice, but it would be awesome if someone with the correct background could provide feedback on this approach.
As for my startup, we sold overseas in easier reg jurisdictions -- we were never able to break into the US market.
Much like the dangerous virus can mutate to a less harmful version of itself, isn't there a risk that the benign version could mutate back to a (more) dangerous form if spread this way?
You can look at it from the other perspective - once identified it would be impossible to stop people spreading it around on their own. Let’s say one of you friends got infected with this “safe” strain you would quickly head over to their home for a cup of tea and a good chat.