Viruses don't care about us . . . A virus is like Jaws in a test tube.
Few threats have the capability of killing so many so fast.
For years we lived under the fear of nuclear winter annihilating the human race. Now there is a similar threat from biology. In its place came these plagues, the slowest of cataclysms. In the 1950s, people feared radiation, fallout and global thermonuclear war. In science fiction films, nuclear anxiety dramatically expressed itself as nightmarish visions of gigantic insects and monstrous crustaceans terrorizing the world.