Fortunately such a meta virus that can kill everything is probably difficult to produce from the set of amino acids shared in common to life on earth.
(This is essentially what a gray goo scenario is—life on earth is probably not maximally efficient and it is probably possible to build full synthetic organisms on the scale of cells that self replicate with optimized internal components)
They are forcing it to happen a lot faster, yes.
Fortunately such a meta virus that can kill everything is probably difficult to produce from the set of amino acids shared in common to life on earth. (This is essentially what a gray goo scenario is—life on earth is probably not maximally efficient and it is probably possible to build full synthetic organisms on the scale of cells that self replicate with optimized internal components)