My take on bioterror:
We live in interesting times.
The merchants of gas masks and freeze-dried rations are making a bundle as once-sane Americans are resorting to methods of survivalists and crackpot militias. The populace is becoming driven by fear... but what is it that is feared?
Death. That inevitable thing that none can escape.
And the fact is, there is no effective defense against bio-chemical attacks. By the time the need to put on masks is realized, it is usually too late. And because strains of biological agents can be altered into vaccine resistant mutants, vaccines can be a waste of time. Further, mass vaccination has risks, including the breeding of just such mutant strains.
I'm not suggesting a better response is nothing at all, but the current response is frivolous.
If we put into perspective what risks we face daily, with or without OBL & The Base (English for Al Qu-whatever), it would make more sense to buy airbags, quit smoking tobacco, use mass transit, exercise more, replace nuclear power with alternate energy development, stop using anti-bacterial soaps, incarcerate the violent and release the non-violent, and eliminate herbicides from our diet and world.
We can't eliminate death or taxes, but in the struggle for sustainability, perhaps we can learn better risk assessment and reduce the onset of mass stupidity. |
