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| Pandemic; Help or hurt Islamic Fundamentalists? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 12 2005, 01:39 AM (91 Views) | |
| corky52 | Oct 12 2005, 01:39 AM Post #1 |
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I don't have any answer for this, just the question? How would a world wide pandemic impact the terrorists and their plans? How would a world wide pandemic impact our fighting the terrorists and our ability to protect this country? |
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| roscoe | Oct 12 2005, 09:07 AM Post #2 |
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Hopefully the only ones pandemized will not be Christians. |
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| TexasShadow | Oct 12 2005, 10:05 AM Post #3 |
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a flu epidemic of the kind being discussed will have a big impact on everyone on earth, including terrorists and our ability to fend them off. from what i've read, the kind of flu being discussed is a very quick killer, but haven't heard, yet, how easily it will spread. |
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| 5thwheeler | Oct 12 2005, 10:12 AM Post #4 |
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"You got to give the Devil his due!" Well thats what I was told during my formative years. Could it be that God isn't all mighty after all? Back in the 80's the religious right proclaimed that God created the AID's virus to punish Gay's, so why did God create this one? Scientists say they have proof this virus has evolved from another strain, and that it will evolve again. Say what? Proof of evolution! |
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History 101: When a popular myth is believed to be factual, teach the myth. Its not possible to underestimate the intelligence of the voting populous. Hummm, after seeing the results of the 06 election, I may have to modify my perception of the voting populous and refer to them as "Late Bloomers".
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| corky52 | Oct 12 2005, 10:53 AM Post #5 |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ This is a quick overview of the 1918 Spanish Flu, close cousin of the Avian Flu. Notice the age band of the death rates, offers some rather interesting food for thought on the shape of the world post pandemic. |
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| cruiser | Oct 12 2005, 11:42 AM Post #6 |
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It has not happened yet, but if it mutates to jump from human to human, instead of bird to human, we are in big trouble. Some major vaccine companies are willing to produce the vaccine but want protection from lawsuits because of side effects of the vaccine. If you know anything about this please post it. |
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | |
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| 5thwheeler | Oct 12 2005, 12:16 PM Post #7 |
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:noproblem: Don't worry about it mutating Cruiser, mutation is an evolutionary process and our Intellegent Design folks assure us that doesn't happen. :preach: Don't ya feel a whole lot better knowing that! |
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History 101: When a popular myth is believed to be factual, teach the myth. Its not possible to underestimate the intelligence of the voting populous. Hummm, after seeing the results of the 06 election, I may have to modify my perception of the voting populous and refer to them as "Late Bloomers".
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| tomdrobin | Oct 12 2005, 10:11 PM Post #8 |
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This will undoubtedly start in Asia, so there will be some warning (like in SARS). Prompt and very restrictive quarantine procedures will be instituted if and when it makes it here, which should limit the spread. Terrorist attacks during a time like this will be a little harder to deal with, because of diversion of resources, but can be dealt with. The worst terrorism scenario would be purposely infecting themselves and then traveling and purposely infecting others. |
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| corky52 | Oct 13 2005, 02:27 AM Post #9 |
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Tom, I don't know where you live, but down here in SoCal there is this thing called a border, doesn't stop anybody. Even if we could do a quarantine we would not be able to to because of globalization, our society would spin down in about a month. |
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