Bioterrorism

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At an unrelated meeting yesterday, explaination of where local health resources were being allocated, a comment was made that the city epidemiologist was on assignment to bioterrorism. Statement flowed through the comment and on to another subject. When brought back for an explaination it was deftly deflected. Yazus. Not one other person said "HOLD". The room went quiet. Maybe this is the real statement about all of this other y2k and possibly related activity. "The room went quiet". Afterwords no discussion, no comment. Just the items on the adgenda. ???????? Total amazement!

-- John Q (hmmmmunanswered@questions.com), December 09, 1999

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Weird. Why is it no one asked? Twilight zone man! Did you try calling his office to get a scoop?

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 09, 1999.

and John Q...I take it that you too were one of those who never opened their mouths??? HMmmmmmmmmmmmm????? Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), December 09, 1999.

See the Bring Out Your Dead.....Bioterrorism thread above this one.

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001xoq

I've been seeing a lot of these articles lately and now people are off at conferences about it as well?

Hmmmmmmm.

Time to wake up and smell the posies.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), December 09, 1999.


Taz--wasn't clear--did ask--wouldn't answer--This was NOT a meeting about bioterrorism, rather about allocations of medical staff where this "off hand" remark was made and could not be pinned down. Sorry about the confusion.

-- John Q (hmmmmmmybabswered@questions.com), December 09, 1999.

They'd have been amiss to not cover this base...I doubt it means anything in particular. No discussion? Not suprising at all. The disaster services folks around here don't like to discuss it either; it scares the hell out of them and they are in NO way ready to deal with such so they ignore it. I am curious as to what town/area this was in.

Call me paranoid if you like but I don't think there's even a question we'll see bioterrorism on U.S. shores during the next few years (NASA though I was overly "paranoid" but they still put me in charge of moving $300m worth of glass optics for Chandra). I have NO inside info but have come to trust my feelings and interpretation of the little tidbits of info we're hearing. We're prepped here, hopefully well enough.

Next time you see the strange contrails go outside and breath deep if you want to live (only 50% tounge-in-cheek...:@)

P.S.-To the DIA analyst reading this...honest, nobody told me.

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), December 09, 1999.



Oh, Don have you just started a string of thought. What if the "chemtrails as vaccine" theory IS true?

What group of people are being targetted for innoculation? Those folks who spend their lives indoors in a climate-controlled, filtered atmosphere? Or those who live an outdoors lifestyle?

Perhaps whoever is behind the spraying wants people who can and will operate outdoors and not today's couch potatoes. Culling the herd perhaps?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), December 09, 1999.


I firmly believe some of it is spraying and it is an innoculation or control attempt. Having said that it could be aimed at humans, but also might be aimed at animals or crops. Agroterrorism has been in the news a lot lately.

Culling the herd...hmmmm...doubt it. I can fantasize a senario where a decision is made to spray inspite of the fact that less healthy or immunologically "challenged" individuals might succumb. Tests on bioagents in the past has shown some have a remarkable tendancy to get into buildings and closed rooms so it might not be as effective in those areas but aside from true biocontainment facilities I think this isn't a deciding issue.

You know, an innoculation attempt, if that's what this is, doesn't necessarily have to be a response to terrorism, domestic or forgein. We could have screwed up, some other government might have or it might be a natural development, such as the mutation of some existing disease. Perhaps one of the innocent "bioengineering" projects (food/ meds/etc.) went astray or somesuch. Leslie Garrett's excellent book, "The Coming Plague" details how we are losing the battle with infectious disease all on our own.

Whatever is going on...best of luck to us all.

P.S. - While the title of Leslie's book may make it sound like something from the woo-woo crowd in reality she's a very serious writer who's won a Pulitzer for her work in reporting on Ebola. It's really an excellent work and I learned a lot from it.

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), December 09, 1999.


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