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Hey Folks, hope all is well. Haven't been around due to a desire to keep our current commander-in-chief in that position for another 4 years. Living in New Jersey has been a bit off kilter since the governor decloseted himself.
Something occurred to me earlier in the day and would like to get an opinion or two.
There has been much concern re: more bombings, dirty bombs or contaminated cargo and it's too logical. That is the type of in the box thinking that caught us napping.
People are drawn to the loud, to the fiery, it catches our attention. With the upcoming RNC convention, here is a different kind of nightmare scenario that's quiet as a churchmouse. A biological attack would be the most effective and disruptive on several different levels and it could be launched without a sound:
1. Limited detection capabilities. Bio-agent saturated garments, backpacks or other possessions or infected individuals could pass through security measures virtually undetected.
2. Unlimited contact within concentrated groups of people of varied social backgrounds maximizes the likelihood of exposure to agent.
3. No explosion or event that would trigger suspicion a terrorist event has occurred.
4. Multiple attackers arriving from multiple departure points on varied types of transportation would afford some measure of success.
5. Infection and incubation rate would allow dispersal of infected individuals throughout national population based upon the speed provided by means of transportation to destination, not by distance from infection point.
6. Every infected individual becomes a new weapon. Creating a casualty and a new weapon with each new they infect.
7. Multiple hundreds of thousands across the country and internationally will become symptomatic almost simultaneously stressing medical services. Primary care, lab, hospital, research will be stress to the point of collapse as new cases appear, wave after wave.
8. Contamination of currency and mass medical absence affect the economy and cause economic depression.
9. Illness and disease related death would change the electoral landscape, without predictability.
There are some who believe a play about plotting the assassination of a president passes for comedy, I fail to see the humor. I would prefer to spend my time as an attentive citizen to the threats this great nation faces. Maybe it's being an alarmist, but I owe a debt to the country where I was fortunate enough to be born. I don't want what I have written misinterpreted and if it doesn't meet the standards of this thread PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATELY!!!
Ever Forward
Respectfully,
onc