From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 17:35:08 MDT
Well, I might sound a bit anachronistic but the good old physical barriers
are still likely to be enormously effective against any bioweapons the
non-SI attackers could make. Face masks, hand washing, eradication of rats,
and mosquitoes, netting over beds, DDT spraying, quarantine - all these will
make most attacks manageable (meaning - non-existential), except for the
stealthed ones, with an ostensibly innocuous microbe spreading freely, and
then converting into a virulent form (could be done with a telomere-based
generation counter). Luckily, this is still some way off in the future.
Rafal
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