CB, I think we should have heresy trials and burning at the stake, for anyone who disagrees that the sars bug is a random experimental artifact in some people exhibiting symptoms of respiratory distress varying from noticing nothing, to being dead.
When I was a child, I could shut my eyes tightly and monsters under the bed wouldn't know I was there. Sometimes people find graveyards a bit unnerving. A good way to avoid dying, and to avoid acknowledging one's mortality, is to whistle past the graveyard and looking nonchalantly in another direction. Bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted is another few words of wisdom from ye olde days of wisdom. Not to mention the old Trojan Horse story - the latest version is the sars bug hiding inside carriers, then jumping out to slay the defenders in the dead of night in the dead of winter when they and other respiratory cofactor marauders have their day. Oh well, an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff instead of a sars bug detection with quarantine and urgent vaccination development is a time-tested approach.
What's really going on, is that this is biological warfare writ large. Those humans whose DNA and immune systems are not up to handling sars are going to be invaded by the others, via kissing, hongi, drink container sharing, spittle on food in restaurants and elsewhere [from people saying "pass the potatoes and peas" while preparing food, or talking to each other at the table while they eat], or sneezing into the ambient air [fine droplets float nicely].
Once the attacking sars-resistant people have infected the enemy, they just have to wait. Sars will mow them down in the thousands and maybe millions. Then, those whose DNA is sars resistant will go on to occupy some very nice houses with lovely views close to city centres. The sars bug will have found some friendly carriers, ready to attack any other people whose DNA falls outside acceptable limits.
That is the true biological warfare that's going on, making Saddam's puny efforts and even the USA's mighty, [but much more ethical than Saddam's because they are the good guys - giggle], biological weapons programmes of mass destruction look trivial.
Malaria has been doing a similar job and only those people with sickle cells [or good pharmaceuticals] can survive and thrive in the anopheles zones. That's a better defence against being invaded by Americans than having weapons of mass destruction. Just have better DNA. Of course, the Americans can still invade by doing some genetic engineering and killing off the anopheles too. Warfare has barely entered the biological realm.
I think globalisation and dropping populations are going to avoid the need for continued warfare. With no political will to use young men as cannon fodder and no need for liebensraum, it'll be back to chasing girls, inventing gadgets to fight the universe, playing footy and golf and trying to make a lot of money for young blokes.
So we should kill off all the biological warfare bugs which have used our need to fight for DNA primacy to gain their foothold in existence. Well, the jig is up and they are going to be got. They are an unnecessary overhead in our daily lives where peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, fun and love will be the order of the day. Where co-operative enterprise among such blissful humans will be aimed at reversing gravitons and changing the polarity of antimatter to what does matter.
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