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

[JOHN M BROWN]

John,

Thanks for the great article!!

Yes, to "protect all your own,” a government would need to develop a novel, harmful, and highly contagious virus, keep it confined to the laboratory, develop a protective vaccine, and immunize its own population, all unbeknownst to the rest of the world, then finally spread the virus to its hostile adversary. Not a minor undertaking. Best executed by bats. 

   John B

PS - I thought it curious that the second photo in the article bore no caption.


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> On May 21, 2020, at 9:17 AM, <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Of course you would have had to previously protect all your own.
> I have a vague recollection that something like this was worked on during the 50s.  I remember one war (don’t remember which) where sick/dead bodies were catapulted over a castle’s wall.  See also https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/pandemic-and-war?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1 <https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/pandemic-and-war?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1>
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> John Rudy
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> From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+jjrudy1=comcast.net at lists.toku.us <mailto:lctg-bounces+jjrudy1=comcast.net at lists.toku.us>> On Behalf Of JOHN M BROWN
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> Subject: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] "The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile"
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> 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. 
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> 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> 
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> John Brown
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> 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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