LanceALott
08-26-2002, 04:23 PM
WEST NILE VIRUS
Is this virus that’s sweeping America a natural phenomenon? Or is it a deliberate act of bio-war?
With any disease that suddenly comes on the horizon and spreads out of control, this question will most likely go unanswered. This is exactly the way a bio-war agent would appear, and it is also the way a natural disease would look. Unless someone confesses, at this point in time, there’s no way to tell the difference.
The mosquitoes are known to biological warfare specialists as “vectors.” A vector is any agent that spreads a disease. A vector may be an infected carrier, like the mosquitoes, or a deer mouse (hantivirus), or even an infected human being (smallpox).
The mosquitoes are vectors for spreading many diseases. Another well-known disease spread by this vector is malaria. Any disease (naturally occurring or genetically engineered designer disease) can be used as a biological warfare agent.
To me, West Nile looks suspicious; but it is not likely to cause mass casualties anymore than the limited use of the known biological warfare anthrax that was spread by the mail carrier (postman) as the vectors.
There are many other viruses that could be spread this same way; and those diseases would insure many more American deaths with the designer diseases. So if some covert enemy deliberately infected our mosquitoes, why would they use West Nile instead of one of those better results designer diseases?
Maybe it was a mere test to see how fast this vector would spread a viral disease all over America? Maybe West Nile is the best bio-weapon they have? Maybe it was to see what our Center for Disease Control would do, and see how effective CDC is at stopping West Nile? Or maybe, just maybe, they used a couple of firecrackers (don’t forget anthrax) instead of their megaton bio-weapon to show us what they could do to us if they want to? That would make both West Nile and anthrax a weapon of terror instead of a weapon of mass destruction.
But then, we don’t really know the West Nile is not just a natural phenomenon. And in that uncertainty rests the greatest weapon in the terrorist’s arsenal: paranoia, “an unreasonable fear: the Global Strategy,” which makes us thrash around doing great damage to ourselves as we react to an enemy that is not real.
I already said this is the war of the flea. As the dog feels a pain, his natural reaction is to scratch at the “bite,” whether it’s a real flea or not. And all that scratching is going to draw blood on the dog’s own butt, whether it was a flea or not.
America has the greatest military force this planet has ever seen, but we are in no way prepared to fight the war of the flea in a protracted war; and given the element of paranoia, there can be no end, even if we annihilate all real enemies.
I know everyone wants me to reassure them, to tell them this “Terrorist War” is a slam dunk for mighty America; but I’ve already seen the USA lose Vietnam in one of these Flea Wars as America was driven to many war crimes in desperation before we tucked our tail between our legs and ran home in defeat. This time we are already home, all dressed up, and no place to go.
There’s no solution for us through force!
And if we force some enemy to use something like Cobra Virus instead of West Nile, there may be no solution where we have any survivors left in the USA.
This War of the Flea could get serious. To me, it looks like a checkmate.
Maybe it’s time to look for an alternate solution, maybe a stalemate? Maybe we should back away from our military hope as we try to force the rest of the world to bow to our American Will?
Maybe we should hope the enemy is smart enough to realize they cannot use Cobra Virus without also killing themselves in the long run since they have no defense for Cobra either, and it will spread all over this planet in time? Maybe we can make them see a permanent stalemate is in their best interest also, a stalemate where all law-abiding nations bow to the New World Order and create a mutually acceptable One World Government where all nations can live together in peace like the individual States in the USA?
You got a better idea?
Is this virus that’s sweeping America a natural phenomenon? Or is it a deliberate act of bio-war?
With any disease that suddenly comes on the horizon and spreads out of control, this question will most likely go unanswered. This is exactly the way a bio-war agent would appear, and it is also the way a natural disease would look. Unless someone confesses, at this point in time, there’s no way to tell the difference.
The mosquitoes are known to biological warfare specialists as “vectors.” A vector is any agent that spreads a disease. A vector may be an infected carrier, like the mosquitoes, or a deer mouse (hantivirus), or even an infected human being (smallpox).
The mosquitoes are vectors for spreading many diseases. Another well-known disease spread by this vector is malaria. Any disease (naturally occurring or genetically engineered designer disease) can be used as a biological warfare agent.
To me, West Nile looks suspicious; but it is not likely to cause mass casualties anymore than the limited use of the known biological warfare anthrax that was spread by the mail carrier (postman) as the vectors.
There are many other viruses that could be spread this same way; and those diseases would insure many more American deaths with the designer diseases. So if some covert enemy deliberately infected our mosquitoes, why would they use West Nile instead of one of those better results designer diseases?
Maybe it was a mere test to see how fast this vector would spread a viral disease all over America? Maybe West Nile is the best bio-weapon they have? Maybe it was to see what our Center for Disease Control would do, and see how effective CDC is at stopping West Nile? Or maybe, just maybe, they used a couple of firecrackers (don’t forget anthrax) instead of their megaton bio-weapon to show us what they could do to us if they want to? That would make both West Nile and anthrax a weapon of terror instead of a weapon of mass destruction.
But then, we don’t really know the West Nile is not just a natural phenomenon. And in that uncertainty rests the greatest weapon in the terrorist’s arsenal: paranoia, “an unreasonable fear: the Global Strategy,” which makes us thrash around doing great damage to ourselves as we react to an enemy that is not real.
I already said this is the war of the flea. As the dog feels a pain, his natural reaction is to scratch at the “bite,” whether it’s a real flea or not. And all that scratching is going to draw blood on the dog’s own butt, whether it was a flea or not.
America has the greatest military force this planet has ever seen, but we are in no way prepared to fight the war of the flea in a protracted war; and given the element of paranoia, there can be no end, even if we annihilate all real enemies.
I know everyone wants me to reassure them, to tell them this “Terrorist War” is a slam dunk for mighty America; but I’ve already seen the USA lose Vietnam in one of these Flea Wars as America was driven to many war crimes in desperation before we tucked our tail between our legs and ran home in defeat. This time we are already home, all dressed up, and no place to go.
There’s no solution for us through force!
And if we force some enemy to use something like Cobra Virus instead of West Nile, there may be no solution where we have any survivors left in the USA.
This War of the Flea could get serious. To me, it looks like a checkmate.
Maybe it’s time to look for an alternate solution, maybe a stalemate? Maybe we should back away from our military hope as we try to force the rest of the world to bow to our American Will?
Maybe we should hope the enemy is smart enough to realize they cannot use Cobra Virus without also killing themselves in the long run since they have no defense for Cobra either, and it will spread all over this planet in time? Maybe we can make them see a permanent stalemate is in their best interest also, a stalemate where all law-abiding nations bow to the New World Order and create a mutually acceptable One World Government where all nations can live together in peace like the individual States in the USA?
You got a better idea?