[Pops]

Man, you guys (I suppose you are guys) before going off about shooting people – against the rules around here you know, let’s step back a minute.

Exactly which city (or compound as it may be) do you suppose this pandemic will be isolated?

The answer is it won’t be A city – it is a PANdemic. There will be no reason - at least after it gets going, to quarantine anything except hospitals – and they will be hell-holes in a week.

I’ll ask again, would you rather the hospital ships stand off like they did in NOLA? The field hospitals stay under wraps? Would you rather they have a rent-a-cop outside wal-mart when the vaccines become available?

Oh yea I remember how that smallpox vaccine sterilized all those Africans – bad deal! I sure wouldn't want to get a vaccine for something that would probably kill me - heck they could be putting one of those radio chips in there.

Come on!

It’s really neither here nor there to me – I have enough beef to keep me in jerky while I wave at the neighbors from a distance.

You'll know when its time for a revolution, don't be looking for an excuse.

[Riddick]

I'm not condoning shooting people - and certainly not anyone particular on this site, or anywhere else for that matter.

I think what happened in New Orleans opened a lot of eyes - especially with regards to the Blackwater "security force". No corporate-owned rent-a-cop goon squad is going to be telling me where I can or cannot go.

What's the saying, "it's better to die on your feet, rather than to live on your knees".

[Chocky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Q')uarantine is fine. Using marshal law to do so is absolutely draconian and unnecessary.

[Specop_007]

More smoke and scare from the liberals I see.
Too bad your only, at a minimum, 3 years late on the government using troops in a epidemic outbreak.

Welcome to last decade folks.

[Renfield]

He's too stupid to deal with anything.

1. To compare the hygene conditions in south Asia with North America is absurd. Just because a disease spreads quickly in poor areas with poor water conditions, poor hygene conditions and poor medical care does not mean that if someone there were to board a plane to North America that it would spread that way here.

2. I wonder if they would be quicker to react to this than to Katrina. Remember, as Brownie said, the Fed's place is to react after the fact and only at the behest of local authorities.

[rogerhb]

I imagine his handlers waking him in the morning, instead of saying "Good morning, it's Tuesday and you are in LA (or wherever)", they say "Good morning, your name is George W Bush and you are President of the USA". I can see him replying "Really?" everyday.

[Renfield]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'I') imagine his handlers waking him in the morning, instead of saying "Good morning, it's Tuesday and you are in LA (or wherever)", they say "Good morning, your name is George W Bush and you are President of the USA". I can see him replying "Really?" everyday.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', 'W')hat's the saying, "it's better to die on your feet, rather than to live on your knees".

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', 'W')hat's the saying, "it's better to die on your feet, rather than to live on your knees".

[SeasonOfPain]

Is anyone else suddenly reminded of how the government reacted to the superflu in The Stand?

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeasonOfPain', 'I')s anyone else suddenly reminded of how the government reacted to the superflu in The Stand?

[Eli]

Ok fill me in I never read the book.

[Chocky]

The basic idea is that an accident at a government biological warfare research center resulted in the release of a 'superflu' strain that kills 99.8% of the world's population. The first half of the book details the spread of the superflu and the resulting breakdown of law and order. The government uses the military and various emergency powers to try and stop the disease from spreading and to stop people from finding out where the disease really came from. They also spread it in other parts of the world, deliberately, in order to make it look more like a natural event.

The second half of the book focuses on the American survivors, who had natural immunity to the flu, and their attempts to rebuild communities. They're divided into two groups, the 'good' and 'bad'. There's a supernatural element as they are drawn together around two opposing good and evil leaders who they see in dreams.

It's a pretty decent book if you don't mind Stephen King's writing style. I read the director's cut version recently, which I found tended to drag on after the climax. Too much of it was taken up with descriptions of meetings of their new local government and boring crap like that.

[Macsporan]

What we need is a squadron of flying pigs to napalm the areas where the flu is rampant.

That'll stop it.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'O')k fill me in I never read the book.

[Eli]

From what I read about it on Amazon it sounds pretty darn good.

Just to raise the paranoia level it would be pretty easy to purposely spread the Bird Flu in areas where you had unwanted Population growth.

You know through up a road block and say the area is quarantined and then spread the bug and let it do the work for you.

[Eli]

From what I read about it on Amazon it sounds pretty darn good.

Just to raise the paranoia level it would be pretty easy to purposely spread the Bird Flu in areas where you had unwanted Population growth.

You know through up a road block and say the area is quarantined and then spread the bug and let it do the work for you.

[Specop_007]

The Stand?
Science fiction. Perhaps somewhat plausible, but nonetheless standard King science fiction.

You guys want a real make you shit your pants read?

The Hot Zone.

It happened. It was real. We came this close >< to having a real OMG we're screwed n doomed end of the world scenario.

I've talked to some of the mil guys who responded to the event. From what they told me, I wouldnt trust the CDC to find thier ass with both hands. They literally made a guess as to whether or not the virus was dangerous.
And they assumed it wasnt. If it had been.......

[Renfield]

YES! Great book and very scary. I used The Hot Zone as source material for a report on epidemics in college.

[SinisterBlueCat]

I smell red herring