At 02:58 AM 7/23/97 -0500, Scott Baker wrote:
Peter took a look at the large crowd that had gathered. He smiled. Lifted
his arms. He preceded to open the container. "Take him out, carefully" said
an agent. Almost instantly a sniper bullet had taken him out. His face
slowly fell to the concrete. The canister flung open, breaking the inside
tubes.
Silence filled the air.
Peter Fathe gazed out the corner of his window. Sweat poured down his
brow. "This is perfect." he said, with stained eyes. His legs weren't very
steady, they shook back and forth.
"How could I be so stupid?" he asked himself. These last few hours had let
him think about what he had done. He slowly opened
the window to get a better view outside. He saw two of his co-workers
walking towards the perimeter of his home.
"Well, this is a perfect way to spend my vacation time!" Mark said in an
overly sarcastic voice. A few seconds later a voice emerged from the
apartment's window. "I'm coming out!"
I'm a little puzzled at the timing. Please make it clearer as to what is
happening when.
For example, in the second extract, when he thinks "How could I be so
stupid?", what is he referring to? The answer depends on when this is
occurring.
Also, FBI and SWAT do not allow crowds to gather near a standoff scene,
and in a situation like this, they would have gone door-to-door removing
the neighbors and cordoning off at least the block (I once lived in an
complex where a hostage crisis occurred, so I got to see this).
was held up by the FBI in his apartment after he stole a case of an
experimental ebola controlling agent. In fact this so-called Controlling
agent does worse than what it's suppose to be controlling. After desperate
attempts at controlling the area, to no avail. It seems the virus was
designed to keep the spread of ebola under control, not to actually kill
the virus. The flaw with this counter-agent is that when mixed with
polluted oxygen it goes in a tentacle like state, almost like cancer,
instead of killing the virus, it gets confused and attacks the pollutants
in the oxygen. When breathed it enters your body, and causes small
convolutions over a period of time, that gradually gets worse. It
liquifies the insides, but that's after it breaks your spine. Spreading is
extremely easy, getting near a victim, or being in a tainted place and you
can contract the virus. It is very hard to diagnose, as it seems like
influenza, and turns deadly after 48 hours of contraction. So before they
can get a hold on what you really have, you are already dead. Go to A7 for
further coverage."
If you are going to elaborate on the disease process, at least try to
make it sound believable. Viruses do not attack pollutants. Viruses
attack cells. They take them over and cause them to produce more viruses,
destroying the cell in the process. Other ways that a virus can affect
people is if it provokes an immune response that damages the body (I
believe that juvenile diabetes is now thought to be a condition which is
hereditary but only becomes active triggered by certain viruses). Also,
and this is the most devious, the DNA of a cell can be changed by the viral
DNA but the cell is not taken over and killed by reproducing viruses.
Anyone out there with a better knowledge of virology, please correct me if
I'm wrong.
mood for answering questions. "You people must keep better track of the
world around you, when technology grows, it tends to lead to catastrophic
events." Nabiki said, crossing her arms, and gazing out into the pond. "You
must learn to keep yourself in constant fear. Not too much, but just
enough." said Nabiki with stunning seriousness. Soun casually walked into
the room. "Is there something I need to know?" he asked. Nabiki rolled her
eyes.
Actually, it was before the modern medicine that people worried about
epidemics. Does the Black Plague ring a bell?
As far as the rest, if the world knew about the virus, they would isolate
and screen people arriving from the US. They only need to be isolated 2-3
days. If they are still healthy, then they don't have the disease. There
would even be travel restrictions within the US, not to mention a large
outbreak of paranoia and xenophobia. Once the news of the disease and its
symptoms are made public, I don't think that people would saying "Oh, it's
just a flu" whan they see someone wheezing and coughing. Peoples'
inclination would be to assume that the person may have the deadly virus.
Governments and international health organizations have considered what to
do in case of an outbreak of somehing like Ebola, especially since they
discovered an airborne form of Ebola, a strain that fortunately did not
affect humans.
dml