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Interesting that UW got part of the grant-money to do testing, but has to spend $300,000 of the money building facilities to do the testing – but they are not sure exactly what level of bio-security they need? And they may back-out of testing if the bio-security level needed is to stringent?
Why not save $300,000 in tax money by awarding the grant to a facility with the required labs?
Oh, thats right – $300,000 is chump-change at the Federal level. 🙂
And, don’t worry about me. I live near Portland, Oregon – so if the virus escapes the UW lab, it’ll probably just travel right down I-5 and kill me. 🙂
And from what I remember about traveling I-5 (visited Sea-Tac area about 6 years ago), you’ll pass from natural causes long before any virus made it down there…
The research is overdue. My only surprise is that the Pentagon never got round to this with any of their own BioWar experiments. This stuff is “better” than Anthrax.
Todd,
LOL!
Thanks for the silver-lining to my cloud.
It’s better than anthrax in what way? It’s a contagion that cannot be controlled.
Some of the military minds controlling, governing, funding this kind of crap only rate the product in how well it kills, e.g., better.
Working backwards, the neutron bomb always comes to mind. Reagan suggested re-introducing the research for it — as, I don’t doubt, would Bush. After all, it didn’t harm infrastructure — it just would kill living things.
Don’t fall down laughing too hard — but, I worked on the Davy Crockett Rocket in the late 1950’s. Google it and you discover all the details that were dead obvious to any of the peons like me — who worked on it at the grunt level. Essentially, this was a shoulder-fired nuclear -warhead recoilless rifle [the term, then]. The dude firing it was frying himself just arming it and firing. And it would land like 450 meters away and explode!
What I’m saying, John — is these cretins say, “build the critter so it kills lots of people: and, then, you can figure out how to keep “US” safe from it.