Smug Git
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We have been getting them here on and off for years and years, and of late have had a flurry of them (these relating to Al Quaida). London is the obvious target for the attack that Blair seems convinced is coming, so we will have to see how we cope with it if and when it does happen.
Smallpox is not as dangerous to the whole of America as you might think; it is bad, for sure, but it is hardly going to wipe you all out. You can kill it off even without vaccines (which is how they did it in India, they just isolated all the sufferers).
I would think that a really dangerous bioweapon attack would be from the US or Russia, who have spent a lot of time and money researching it, or from someone who bought the stuff from one of those two countries (ie, from Russia); it is sadly entirely possible that anyone does have russian weapons because since the fall of the Soviet Union, soldiers and scientists have been selling off God knows what to make up for not getting paid regularly or sufficiently. The threat ought to be taken seriously anyhow, of course; if it is believed that Al Quaida (and when I say 'believed' I mean 'believed by people in the intelligence community') have proper Soviet bioweapons then that is a big cause for concern and probably many of us will die here in London if they can find a proper way of releasing them over the city/into the water supply/whatever.
I don't see that there is much point, given the vagueness of the warnings (and if our governments really knew details of a plot, they would just stop it rather than try to keep us alert and peturb the terrorists) in hiding in your home. I mean, people still live on the East Coast of the US and yet experts appear to agree that 1) the Casa Vieja in the Canary Islands is unstable and will at some future date (maybe up to 200 years or anytime before that) will collapse into the sea, and 2) the East Coast of the US is going to be hit by a gigantic tsunami a couple of hours or so later. On the other hand, fear of massive terrorism aimed at population centres would be good for the midwest, which would have a new influx into the gene pool as people flee from fear; the native midwesterners would, of course, still copulate with family members for the practice, but they wouldn't have to marry and breed with them, instead impressing a big city boy or girl with their rural charm, their easy way with farm animals and their high tolerance for mind-numbing boredom.
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