Yokel, I think you give 'The Government' more credit for diabolical planning than its due. Elected governments are too messy and slow-moving to be involved in such intricate minutiae. Mistakes get made, bad drugs get released, bad wars are entered into, bad environmental decisions are made, wealthy cronies get their way on some laws - but to think some upperlevel bureaucrat says, "Aha! Let's kill a few thousand citizens on purpose!" is tinfoilhattery.

Can we have a cite for the lunchmeat viruses, please?