"And then there’s the medical load. Terrorists kill somebody, and he’s dead. Put him on ice until the ruckus is over, then incinerate him. But this way isn’t anywhere near that clean. This bug doesn’t kill people, it makes them very sick. They go to the hospital or to a clinic, where they tie up a bed, the time and energy of doctors and staff, and other resources, for as long as it takes them to get better or die." She looks really sour, and I don’t blame her. "If the bug has a high fatality rate, if there were an epidemic, the logical thing to do would be triage—simply don’t treat bug victims, because they’re going to die anyway. But no society could do that. And if a society got to the point where it could, the terrorists have basically destroyed it anyway."