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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond
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To: Ed Huang who started this subject5/3/2003 11:07:44 AM
From: BubbaFred  Read Replies (1) of 9018
 
Perhaps the use of fear combined with manipulation of public perception has become an effective weapon. It has made "SARS" one of the greatest virus in history of mankind and subdues North Korean nuclear weapon threat almost a non-event.

Could SARS be a genetically engineered virus used as bioweapon for a mild warning shot? It is the lower end of wmd's range but has proven to be an effective and potent show of US weaponry capability to impact economic growths elsewhere in the globe.

The greatest potency comes from combining the new strain of "engineered" virus with fear factor that's so effectively spread through the news media. That's a significant public perception ploy. The common flu virus has annual fatality rate of 30,000 in the US. Thus far, SARS is mild in comparison but it is peculiar in that it has no age preference and claims a greater percentage of its victims. Therefore SARS becomes much more infamous and its impact is much greater than the more well known common flu strains.

I wonder why there has been so little words from GW on this subject? The smallpox was a gargantuan effort that included a proposed nationwide vaccination. That was a public perception ploy to create public fear against terrorists using smallpox as bioweapon to attack US population. OR, did they think that smallpox vaccination would alleviate the worst effects of this genetically engineered SARS virus? That is, in case its effect and spread are much more lethal than anticipated? We will see how SARS mutates over the next few months.

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