And this has to do with the DX4WIN program how?
Brian - NX0X
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> On Mar 24, 2020, at 12:59, William Osborne wrote:
>
> My greatest concern is that this pandemic has demonstrated a clear pathway
> to China, Russia, rogues states like Iran and North Korea (and perhaps even
> Venezuela and Cuba), and non-state terrorist groups how in the future they
> could attack, weaken, and possibly destroy the United States with very little
> investment or technological requirements. That is, through the use of viral
> or bacterial biological warfare.
> Imagine the scenario in which a fanatical jihadi – instead of putting on an
> explosive suicide vest and blowing himself up at a U.S. military base or
> airport – is injected by his handlers with an extremely contagious and lethal
> virus or bacillus, carrying a sickness that has an incubation period of 24 to
> 96 hours. He is then given an airline ticket to New York, LA, San Francisco,
> or Washington DC. He arrives in the US completely asymptomatic and clears
> customs and medical screenings at the airport, and then takes a taxi and
> disappears into urban America, making physical and aerosol contact with as
> many Americans as he/she can. Now imagine that happening simultaneously with
> a half-dozen or more fanatics, and you have a pandemic on the cheap. The
> possibilities and potential outcomes are frightening to contemplate.
> We have always feared this sort of asymmetric contingency in planning for
> defense of the homeland, but the Wuhan virus pandemic has filled in many of
> the specifics that the bad guys would need in order to better execute such a
> fiendish attack plan. This pandemic also has helped them identify critical
> nodes and infrastructure to target that would enhance the physical and
> psychological impact of a bio-warfare attack on the US.
> Let’s face it: we have entered uncharted territory, and perhaps stand at the
> precipice of a vulnerability-prone new Dark Ages.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
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