[airborne]

Swine flu.

Pandemic = complete government control/police state

[GOPJ]

It's a good guess - problem is in pandemic people die - or get better.

For liberals this has to be something that's mildly plausible - enough to trick most of the people for a while. And long term. It has to be costly and have enough buildup time for Hollywood idiots to jump on the bandwagon and do "fund raisers"...

A pandemic's too quick.