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Leprosy is bacterial. In addition to curing leprosy with antibiotics, we also have anti-biotic resistant leprosy. What prevents a terrorist from deliberately infecting themself with leprosy and then engaging in promiscuous activity? How would a city like San Francisco, Washington DC, Paris or Berlin react to leprosy? When leprosy has a long incubation period, are we certain that leprosy isn't spreading already?
martyb: I was debating whether or not to run this story; from the Wikipedia page, "Contrary to popular belief, it is not highly contagious." But, there is more to this than just antibiotic-resistant leprosy. It invites discussion as to other agents with delayed response that could be employed. In addition, given a terrorist's intention to affect some other group, what options do they have which would affect that group without also adversely affecting their own group? How many of their own group are people willing to "harm" in the pursuit of harm to another group?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 07 2017, @06:16AM (2 children)
What I'm frankly shocked hasn't happened is a terrorist starting a good old fashioned stampede without any real weapon at all. After all all they would have to do is say fly a drone spreading a white powder in the air while broadcasting from a speaker on the drone that its a biological agent. Do it at something like a football game? You'd have dozens stomped to death in the stampede and wouldn't require any actual toxins at all.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:52AM
You'd have dozens stomped to death in the stampede
Just what I would suspect someone with a username like "Hairyfeet" would secretly be wishing for. #FBInotify
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:00PM
What I'm surprised about is the lack of economic terrorism in the form of suicide bombers at shopping malls on Black Friday. Imagine making people too afraid to spend money they don't have on things their family and friends don't need when our economy most needs them to do so.