Here's the thing, regarding the biolab -- the university and legislature are behind it with almost religious fervor. It means more jobs (high-tech, much moneys), it means prestige, it means a lot. And they're not doing a half-assed job of putting together the building, believe me.
But it comes down to a simple question of chaos versus order. If you ultimately believe that mankind can exert absolute control over nature, even on such a small scale, then it's a roll of the dice you feel that you can take, because otherwise, it's just going to end up in another state.
And yet you only need to come up snake-eyes once. If you don't have that confidence in human control, or if you just have greater faith in chaos or nature or just simple stupidity, if there's one outbreak, then the protocols are draconian and brutal:
-- You close the state borders, nothing goes in or out. -- From the incident site, you create a 1.5-mile radius "exposed zone" and inside that zone, you kill everything with cloven hooves
( ... )
Yup, though I confess, neither of those worry me like FMD. (And I'm about a five-minute walk away from the building, too.)
The Crimson Sky simulation, with the 25-mile trench and the rioting? Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. (The building in question is named after the senator who played the president in that sim, too.)
Yes- FMD is more worrying to me, not just because I raise goats and feeder calves (don't have any right now though :( ) but because it usually isn't fatal and is very rarely transmitted to humans (where it is almost never fatal or life-shattering) many people don't take it seriously.
But it comes down to a simple question of chaos versus order. If you ultimately believe that mankind can exert absolute control over nature, even on such a small scale, then it's a roll of the dice you feel that you can take, because otherwise, it's just going to end up in another state.
And yet you only need to come up snake-eyes once. If you don't have that confidence in human control, or if you just have greater faith in chaos or nature or just simple stupidity, if there's one outbreak, then the protocols are draconian and brutal:
-- You close the state borders, nothing goes in or out.
-- From the incident site, you create a 1.5-mile radius "exposed zone" and inside that zone, you kill everything with cloven hooves ( ... )
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This is going to end well.
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The Crimson Sky simulation, with the 25-mile trench and the rioting? Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. (The building in question is named after the senator who played the president in that sim, too.)
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