[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] "The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile"

[JOHN M BROWN]

Yesterday, during the Q&A of Dan Kleppner’s terrific presentation about the pivotal feasibility study, which he led, of a boost-phase missile defense system, I half-jokingly pondered whether “biologic weapons” might now become a major focus of US defense. 

By serendipity, I've just came upon this assertion - 
"The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile” -
by Farhad Manjoo in his NY Times OpED from yesterday -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-worst-case.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200521&instance_id=18626&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=68265797&segment_id=28645&user_id=4a0f90d24f656f9263952e979f4dcfc8 <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-worst-case.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200521&instance_id=18626&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=68265797&segment_id=28645&user_id=4a0f90d24f656f9263952e979f4dcfc8> 

John Brown

PS - US actually did have a sort of rudimentary civil defense system for biowarfare, the pandemic preparedness task force, but it was dismantled a couple of years before it might have been useful. Something about cost, I believe. It would have cost several billion dollars a year to maintain stocks of PPE etc that could be distributed in a pandemic, something our government could not afford. 
  
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