tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post1448226293050174444..comments2024-03-27T17:27:49.087-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Ebola is Serious Business 3: But it Would Make a Crappy BioweaponVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-17901261666112697982014-10-18T20:57:35.761-04:002014-10-18T20:57:35.761-04:00They stopped regularly vaccinating people for smal...They stopped regularly vaccinating people for smallpox back in the 70s (I'm not vaccinated, for instance), but I'm pretty sure that an outbreak of something like that, which is very identifiable, would be sussed out easily. But the cost of carrying out a smallpox attack...it's just not worth it. Sure, Aum Shinryko and the Rajneshees managed to cobble together some botulism and salmonella, respectively, but so can a crappy corner grocery. Which is why some of the ebola fear-mongering about "Oh noes, what about EBOLA ISIS MESSICANS!" from the Fox Mushroom Farm types is odd as hell. It makes no logical sense. Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-34176451985231851672014-10-18T18:58:03.853-04:002014-10-18T18:58:03.853-04:00Biological weapons are not optimal under any circu...Biological weapons are not optimal under any circumstances in the modern world. Too much observation, detection and record keeping. Too many innoculated populations to allow the use of 'good' weapons, like Smallpox. And zero control. No way to prevent the weapon from coming back and doing even more damage to YOUR community than it did to the enemy's.<br /><br />No, the big powers understand what a bioweapon is and is not. They are using genetic engineering to increase the virulence and transmissibility of diseases with desirable traits, and they are at the same time producing (or researching) a vaccine, so they can quickly protect their own population or troops while letting the weapon ravage the enemy.<br /><br />The dirty little secret that the fear mongers don't want you to know that true 'WMD' is the province of advanced nations, not ragtag militias and terror organizations. They just don't have the institutional wherewithal to deal with that kind of complexity...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-34537385648802748842014-10-18T17:54:53.887-04:002014-10-18T17:54:53.887-04:00There's something remarkably obstinate in some...There's something remarkably obstinate in someone who rejects evolution, one almost has to assume, because liberals happen to acknowledge it. Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-31713974922020728632014-10-18T15:10:48.266-04:002014-10-18T15:10:48.266-04:00Contrary to liberal dogma, it is possible to belie...<i>Contrary to liberal dogma, it is possible to believe in science while rejecting evolution.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/17/were-getting-an-ebola-czar-we-need-a-surgeon-general/tab/comments/#comment-18951778" rel="nofollow">In the comments.</a><br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com