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originally posted by: signalfire
It's starting to look as if Ebola was weaponized by crossing it with Lassa.
originally posted by: signalfire
Best of both worlds, robust lethality rates with a 10 day to two week incubation, giving it time to get on a plane and spread itself nicely.
originally posted by: signalfire
You can TELL it's a plot and not just a simple outbreak of natural diseases, because they're lying and saying it's not airborne when it so obviously can be.
originally posted by: soficrow
Criteria:
1. Must be infectious, virulent and spread easily.
2. Must cull the elderly, already debilitated and chronically ill.
3. Must spare the young and healthy.
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originally posted by: blkcwbyhat
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
the controllers?? Anyway,why would they want to randomly de populate the country? They will need the slave labor in the FEMA camps
originally posted by: soficrow
Basically a good idea. Problem is though, space was privatized about a decade ago. Which means the corporations call the shots. They'll get there soon enough, and set up corporate colonies with company towns - when the health glitches can be covered up a bit better. Lots of guys will line right up for major cash, and won't know they've booked themselves into a substantially shorter lifespan spent with serious life-altering debilitation - and no right to sue, and no health coverage.
Problem is, something called "epigenetics" is a "Rapid Response System" for environmental changes that affect the human body. Space travel acceleration and de-acceleration, zero and low gravity all constitute changes that trigger major epigenetic responses - and result in chronic debilitating disease. The current medical focus is on overriding those epigenetic responses just enough to keep the grunts working. ...Another pesky little problem is that tests can screen for bacterial infections - but NOT retro- and latent viruses. Which means that when they flare up in space (which they will), they shed, and everybody's shedding virions "mate" with everyone else's and recombine and create new diseases. Some deadly. Which, when you're talking about a contaminated space ship or colony, is potentially a HUGE economic problem. ....No one in the space industry is too concerned about the laborers - just management and money - so with a little medical tweaking and a few major cover-ups, it'll all be sorted out and a bunch of uninformed idiots will get to go to space. Dontcha worry.
originally posted by: Metallicus
It frightens me that anyone would actually think this way.
The idea of planning a perfect disease to kill my fellow humans is creepy.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: crazyewok
Ebola burns too fast to spread any way,even if it was airborne,...
I don't think there's a plan to depopulate western nations. Possibly poor countries with desirable resources.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: signalfire
It's starting to look as if Ebola was weaponized by crossing it with Lassa.
Got sources on that? No you dont
Its certainly NOT looking like anything of the sort.
It's not like the information would be common knowledge. It has been alleged and we'll know soon....
originally posted by: signalfire
Best of both worlds, robust lethality rates with a 10 day to two week incubation, giving it time to get on a plane and spread itself nicely.
Not really, Ebola is up to 21 days incubation anyway. Splicing it with Ebola (if that's even possible) would weaken both viruses for little effect!
You have no way of knowing that a genetically modified organism would 'weaken both viruses for little effect' and the US government has most definitely been fiddling with these things for decades now for biowarfare purposes.
Why slice Ebola with Lassa what reason is there is mixing a already nasty virus (Ebola) with a less dangerous virus?
To make the incubation slower, giving it a chance to spread. You would actually up the fatality rate thereby. Honestly, for someone who claims to be a biologist, you don't seem to understand much of what's possible.
originally posted by: signalfire
You can TELL it's a plot and not just a simple outbreak of natural diseases, because they're lying and saying it's not airborne when it so obviously can be.
Source?
If it was airborne things would really have gone to pot everywhere.
I don't have to give you a source, try reading somewhere else but here for a change. This isn't the only place where conjecture and discussion happens, you know. YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD 'MAYBE'. If it HAS been crossed, it's a top secret operation that none of us has access to. People are speculating based on it's behavior thus far. As far as 'if it's airborne', give it another few weeks. We'll find out presently if/when contagion rates go hockeystick, which it looks like they already are.
As far as 'airborne' or not, are you saying you'd happily share a long plane flight with an Ebola exposed seat mate?
This thing gets through the full isolation garb of people who are trained for it and have far more than a healthy respect for it, and yet talking heads everywhere are claiming it's not airborne...
All those newscasters saying 'we know how to handle this here in the western world' have never worked in a hospital; in three days after first cases in the community, this would shut down whole cities, and the hospitals would be completely overwhelmed and understaffed.