[Dx4win] BIG Problem

[William Osborne]

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