Spanish Flu Virus Recreated

You know, I'm not really sure if I am ever going to understand this world, how some of the people living here think, or why they do what they do.

Did you catch this article at The Guardian about the recreation of the Spanish flu virus? Just quoting a little from it:

Scientists have recreated the 1918 Spanish flu virus, one of the deadliest ever to emerge, to the alarm of
many researchers who fear it presents a serious security risk.

Undisclosed quantities of the virus are being held in a high-security government laboratory in Atlanta,
Georgia, after a nine-year effort to rebuild the agent that swept the globe in record time and claimed the
lives of an estimated 50 million people.

The genetic sequence is also being made available to scientists online, a move which some fear adds a further risk of the virus being created in other labs.

Ok. Right. So my first question is: Why? Why the hell would someone want to re-create a virus so deadly that it killed an estimated 50 million people??!!?? Why would scientists work diligently burning the midnight oil for nine whole years to create something that KILLS? Why?

Yeah, I know. It certainly isn't the first time this has been done. We've got a lovely assortment of various biological and chemical weapons to chose from should we decide that we would like to exterminate a large number of people in one shot - and, of course, we can't forget to add to that list of goodies our "masterpiece" either - the atomic bomb - now, can we?

But this still begs the question: Why? Why do governments fund such projects? How can those working on them go home and sleep well at night? Where are their consciences? Do they have consciences?

I have to wonder.

Actually, the above-mentioned article does answer this question of "Why?", to some extent at any rate. It reads:

The recreation was carried out in an attempt to understand what made the 1918 outbreak so devastating.

Why? So that they might be able to create something equally, or even, more devastating?

Reporting in the journal Science, a team lead by Dr Jeffery Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland shows that the recreated virus is extremely effective. When injected into mice, it quickly took hold and they started to lose weight rapidly, shedding 13% of their original weight in just two days. Within six days, all mice injected with the virus had died.

Well, this is certainly comforting, isn't it? If you come down with the Spanish flu, you'll likely be dead within six days. Very "effective", indeed! Boy, I'll bet those folks in the lab must've been jumping for joy when they made this big breakthrough. I wonder if they had a party to celebrate?

The government and military researchers who reconstructed the virus say their work has already provided invaluable insight into its unique genetic make-up and helps explain its lethality.

Note that it was government and military researchers who recreated this virus. Use your head on that one, and you should be able to answer the question as to "Why?" they would re-create such a deadly virus. What do military researchers research? They research how to make better, more "effective" weapons.

But other researchers warned yesterday that the virus could escape from the laboratory. "This will raise clear questions among some as to whether they have really created a biological weapon," said Professor Ronald Atlas at the centre for deterrence of biowarfare and bioterrorism at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Well, let's put our thinking caps on here for a minute. Hmmm. Have they "really created a biological weapon"? Aahh. Yeah. Looks that way.

Publication of the work and the filing of the virus's genetic make-up to an online database followed an emergency meeting last week by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which concluded that the benefits of publishing the work outweighed the risks. Many scientists remained sceptical. "Once the genetic sequence is publicly available, there's a theoretical risk that any molecular biologist with sufficient knowledge could recreate this virus," said Dr John Wood, a virologist at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Potters Bar.

Then, of course, after they make these "scientific breakthroughs" that have no other purpose other than to wreak death and destruction on a huge mass of people - get this - they then start harping about "security" !

"Oh, my! What if it gets into the wrong hands! What if these "bad guys" then decide to use it on US! Oh, my!"

Well, hell, maybe you should've thought of that one before you spent almost a decade re-creating the thing, yeah?

Or, maybe - and here's just one of those funky conspiracy theory type things, so no need to pay much attention - maybe, just maybe, this is what was intended all along. Maybe it was the intention of the "government behind the government" - you know, the one who thinks that the population of the planet is way too high and needs to be drastically cut back if they're going to be able to get enough of everything they want - to create this thing, make sure "someone else" knows about it, then when it is used - perhaps on the US population itself - then the US government-within-a-government gets what it wants, and the US administration comes out squeaky clean. Not only that, but such a scenario would allow the Bush administration to finally declare martial law.

Still, they actually don't need to go to all of the trouble of leaking the information to the wrong people. All they have to do is plan one of those false flag operations they're so good at planning, and the deed is done. You know, rather than waiting for and hoping that real Arabs go do the dirty deed, just dress up as a couple of Arabs and go do the job yourself! You might even make a quick video of them claiming responsibility, and "bang!" - mission accomplished!

In fact, it seems to me that the fact that information about this little "scientific breakthrough" has been released may very well be to psychologically prepare the public to expect such a bio-attack, and to become even more afraid of anyone that even looks slightly middle-eastern than they may have been before. In other words, to terrorize the population. Because I can guarantee you, if such an attack occurs, it will most assuredly be blamed on "Arab terrorists" - and will likely even be well-set up with all the necessary evidence to prove it.

But of course, very few would even consider such scenarios possible - least of all much of the US population who is very deeply invested in the idea that their government can "do no wrong", and most certainly not against its own people. Least of all much of a US population that is so deeply invested in the belief that there is an enemy, and that enemy is "out there". The "other".

Thinking otherwise - thinking that, perhaps, the enemy isn't actually some "other" government or organization in a far-away land they barely know how to find on an atlas, thinking that, perhaps, their "enemy" may very well be their own power-hungry, psychopathic, fundamentalist government - is just too terrifying.

In any case, whether it is the US government who might use the virus and then blame it on the Arabs, or whether the Arabs or some other group get the information, develop and use the virus themselves, any blame for the inevitable genocide that will occur as a result still lies primarily with those who re-created this virus in the first place.

The US government and military.

Did you ever ask yourself just how many tax dollars may have been used to fund this nifty little project? Do you realize what your tax dollars may be being used for? Do you care?


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