I hope you're right, Dave H, but for the purpose of buying some time and preventing an immediate panic, "contamination" would be my choice for a cover story. Nothing to see here, false alarm, ha ha, who told you we unearthed an unstoppable plague, that's silly, ha ha, we didn't dig up the Cenozoic Flu, that is if it had a reporting name, which it totally does not, and it's not Cenozoic Flu, ha ha ...
I've seen this movie. Some of us survive and hug each other during the end credits, some of us die ugly in the wire of the Army Plague Centers when we panic and try to break out, and there will probably be an annoying child. Thanks, Russian scientists!
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How about John W. Campbell?
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Nice. Y'all went there. ;)
ReplyDeleteWe have met the alien, and he is us.
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Party pooper.
ReplyDeleteI had a sad. And a relieved.
ReplyDeleteOr is that just what those who have already been taken over by the bacteria want us to believe?
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right, Dave H, but for the purpose of buying some time and preventing an immediate panic, "contamination" would be my choice for a cover story. Nothing to see here, false alarm, ha ha, who told you we unearthed an unstoppable plague, that's silly, ha ha, we didn't dig up the Cenozoic Flu, that is if it had a reporting name, which it totally does not, and it's not Cenozoic Flu, ha ha ...
ReplyDeleteI've seen this movie. Some of us survive and hug each other during the end credits, some of us die ugly in the wire of the Army Plague Centers when we panic and try to break out, and there will probably be an annoying child. Thanks, Russian scientists!
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