From: Kathryn Aegis (k_aegis@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 00:19:43 MDT
At 09:11 AM 9/19/99 EDT, Greg Burch writes:
>now, so I've been thinking about this question as I read the book. It seems
>like your scenario would result in a fairly speedy collapse of the political
>order into multiple declarations of emergency by the various branches and
>levels of government and other, non-political institutions. Each would be
>claiming to uphold the "true" constitutional order.
Interesting. The original scenario did not account for the long line of
succession in power in our government. I would think that a remaining
member of the cabinet, the speaker of the House, the Senate pro temp,
whoever was left, would find themselves under quarantine and running
government via telephone. Would every successor in our government actually
find themselves all in one place to be infected? The Secret Service
definitely considers biological scenarios in their threat assessment. They
do not let all top members of the government fly in one plane, attend the
same meeting, or Presidential address--there's always one person separated
out to avoid a mass assassination (or a mass infection, I guess!)
Kathryn Aegis
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