Posted on 04/16/2003 5:32:41 AM PDT by Prince Charles
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
HONG KONG -- Tainted buildings are now basically abandoned. Taxi drivers refuse to pick up people who call from certain neighborhoods. Cough in public, and people glare suspiciously, then dash away to get as far from you as possible.
And, as a confusing, terrifying virus runs amok, killing a one-day record of nine people here on Tuesday, residents' suspicions of how it is spread range from cockroaches to sewage to sex to the old man sitting peacefully on a park bench blowing his nose.
(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...
"SARS is not really too terrifying. But, if we created a germ that was a little more deadly, and spread a little more easily, we could clearly cause chaos in any nation on Earth. Sure, long term it might blowback and affect our friends and family also -- but we're crazy bio-warfare guys. And we don't care."
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