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Plum Island is indeed a disease research center. The animal and agricultural mission is, IMO, necessary. While some of the diseases previously researched by the center are now uncommon in the US, there are others that pose a potential threat to our food supply. Let's face it, we need a secure isolated place to investigate these threats where the risk of spread to the mainland is low.
Biological weapons are another matter. First of all it was stopped by Nixon in 1969. Did it really stop - who knows?
What need to be realized is that Plum Island is NOT the problem. Hundreds of research centers across the U.S. are on Universities and Pharmaceutical facilities. Where is the oversight of these facilities? Researchers are required to get results and publish them in journals in order to continue funding. Thats why over the previous 15 or so years we have had data published that was widely accepted by the public and the scientific community, yet when others tried to duplicate these findings, they discovered the original research was flawed.
I'm not worried about Plum Island - I worried about some of the scary stuff coming out of Universities and Pharmaceutical facilities. When folks are working on a nano chip to inject into my blood stream - I worry! -
You were in and you don't know? Your NBC training wasnt just geared for them on us now was it?Knowledge is Power, Practiced Knowledge is Strength, Tested Knowledge is ConfidenceComment
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Well, seeing how the Army purchased a Biological Deployment Vehicle back in 2008, I would have to say when addressing civilians we refuse to use biological warfare. But in reality we still research it and its deployment, so you cannot really say we "wouldn't" use it. After all, it wasn't log ago when the government would not pay out for National Disasters, but now everybody is in line for their free hand out because they bought a house on the beach where they knew hurricanes hit on a regular basis...Originally posted by monkeybird View Post
Point being, governments lie, governments change policy, and governments hide things from the common folk...Comment
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That place gives me the creeps. Lymes disease in humans was first discovered all around that place. Before that, it was considered non-communicable to humans.
I lived in a town called Mattituck, on the north shore of far eastern long island, close to Plum Island most of my life. When we were kids, we would pull ticks off of us almost daily in the summer. Nobody ever got sick. Sometime around the eighties, young kids started getting alot of arthritis in the area. There were strange illnesses popping up there. Suddenly they 'discovered' Lymes disease (in Connecticut across the sound, but eastern LI has way more Lymes disease per capita) and said it was communicable by tick bite.
Now for twenty five years me, my family and friends had been getting tick bites without incident. Suddenly, a tick bite can give you Lymes disease. Needless to say, after living my whole life there without incident, I got bit by a tick and contracted lymes disease a year and a half ago.
I have found that the whole business of lymes disease is very hush-hush, many doctors refuse to recognize that it even exists. Going into a Dr. office and mentioning lymes disease has resulted in people being asked to leave. Several doctors have lost their licenses for treating lymes patients. I don't know what its all about, but the whole thing stinks.Comment
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@KirkMcquest time to buy you some guinneas... They are non stop tick eating machines!!Comment
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yes I've heard about that. One guy told me that they work better than all the sprays and etc.. This spring I'm going to give them a try.Originally posted by Klayton View PostComment
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