Of Course Fox is Screaming "Terrorism"

I was exercising (stationary bicycle), and watching TV at the Gym. CNN was focusing the bridge collapse and the trapped miners, and on the next TV over, Fox News was screaming "run for your lives, and put your trust in Bush", about the Foot and Mouth^* outbreak in the UK.

Fox News is really into creating terror as a way to hold onto viewers.

Let's be clear. This is not terrorism. The subvariant of the virus is not one commonly found, but it is very close to the one in the 1967 outbreak, which is used for vaccine manufacture at a laboratory in Pirbright, which is is within the 3- kilometer protection zone.

If someone wanted to do bio-terrorism with hoof and mouth, it would be easier to go to areas of Asia or Africa where the disease is endemic (the 2001 outbreak was the "Type O pan Asia" strain), collect samples, and cover most of the country in a car for multiple outbreaks in multiple locations.

I once priced it out, and you could probably do this for less than 50 grand.

^*Foot and Mouth and Hoof and Mouth are the same thing. The Brits call it the former, and we call it the latter.