[118410] in Cypherpunks
RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sun Sep 26 19:34:02 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:22:52 -0500 (CDT)
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----- Forwarded message from Tim May -----
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:53:40 -0700
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: CDR: RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror (fwd)
At 1:20 PM -0700 1999-09-26, Jim Choate wrote:
>----- Forwarded message from Lucky Green -----
>
>From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
>Subject: CDR: RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror
>Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:58:54 -0700
>
>Of course Americans are no more vulnerable today to bios than they were 20
>years ago. We are still the same species we were 20 or a 100 years ago. And
>designer bugs are still rather uncommonly found in the possession of those
>that might use them.
>
>----- End of forwarded message from Lucky Green -----
>
>Wrong. Americans today are pretty much immune to measles, smallpox, polio,
>etc.
>We may be the same species we were 100 years ago but the environment we live
>in isn't.
Read the article John Young placed on Cryptome some time back, Richard
Preston's "The Demon in the Freezer," http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm
This will change your view about just how "immune" Americans are to smallpox.
----- End of forwarded message from Tim May -----
That does raise an interesting point in that many Americans have simply not
gotten innoculated as youth or else they've let the boosters drop as they
got into adulthood. I was wondering if somebody would make reference to
this. The additional point should be recognized that even with slight
modifications the existing immunities could be bypassed, change the surface
coat protein. Though, even with this caveat and extension the point is valid
with respect to Lucky's comment. In addition we have understanding,
discovery, and distribution systems that those 100, or even 20, years ago
were only dreaming about.
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