This kind of thing... To me, it matters and it doesn't matter. I read Nicholson Baker's *Baseless.* I know the US has been into germ warfare for a very, very long time. I don't know if anyone can change that, at this point, or what the mechanism would be. I mean, there were hearings in the 1970s about our germ warfare programs, and nothi…
This kind of thing... To me, it matters and it doesn't matter. I read Nicholson Baker's *Baseless.* I know the US has been into germ warfare for a very, very long time. I don't know if anyone can change that, at this point, or what the mechanism would be. I mean, there were hearings in the 1970s about our germ warfare programs, and nothing changed, except the feds decided never to respond to FOIA requests again. (Every time I ask about mine, I'm told that they will each take two years. Every time. And I've been asking for two years now.) The thing is, even if a pathogen were to emerge from a chicken mating with a pangolin, or whatever Jon Stewart said (funny! and nice of him to open the door for other human beings), it would still not be Constitutional for the feds to take away everyone's rights until they'd been injected with a harmful, ineffective gene therapy. The bit where the feds take away your ability to ride a bus without a paper bull**** mask, that's the part that hasn't calcified yet, the part that is still up for grabs. The feds secretly developing bioweapons behind your back with your money? That ship sailed a very long time ago, and the people who do it would just lie and say that they've stopped, even if they were caught red-handed. (Does anyone think the feds aren't *still* reading our email and our text messages? Please.)
This kind of thing... To me, it matters and it doesn't matter. I read Nicholson Baker's *Baseless.* I know the US has been into germ warfare for a very, very long time. I don't know if anyone can change that, at this point, or what the mechanism would be. I mean, there were hearings in the 1970s about our germ warfare programs, and nothing changed, except the feds decided never to respond to FOIA requests again. (Every time I ask about mine, I'm told that they will each take two years. Every time. And I've been asking for two years now.) The thing is, even if a pathogen were to emerge from a chicken mating with a pangolin, or whatever Jon Stewart said (funny! and nice of him to open the door for other human beings), it would still not be Constitutional for the feds to take away everyone's rights until they'd been injected with a harmful, ineffective gene therapy. The bit where the feds take away your ability to ride a bus without a paper bull**** mask, that's the part that hasn't calcified yet, the part that is still up for grabs. The feds secretly developing bioweapons behind your back with your money? That ship sailed a very long time ago, and the people who do it would just lie and say that they've stopped, even if they were caught red-handed. (Does anyone think the feds aren't *still* reading our email and our text messages? Please.)
Nope. Not a bit. Thanks!