With all the work he was doing on Projects Crackpot and Buzzkill, Tom had almost forgotten about the other major event that was due to take place that day. He was glad his boss had reminded him. Once Camp Alpha had been vacated, the site was going to be used to test the USA’s response to disasters—natural or otherwise.
The idea was to house all survivors in special camps until it was safe to return to the site of the disaster. The Council of Unified Nations Treaty described the action of containment as an appropriate response to a terrorist event, but the way the treaty was written meant it was possible to apply the process to any large scale disruption, including a global pandemic.
14.5.1.2 Global Pandemic Response Option 2 – Containment
Procedure is as stated in section 17.4.1.2 Local Terrorism Event Response Option 2 – Containment.
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17.4.1.2 Local Terrorism Event Response Option 2 – Containment
Local authorities will provide facilities for the mandatory internment of citizens affected by a Local Terrorism Event. The facilities should be located a minimum of 50 kilometres from a potential target zone (see Appendix G.1 – Potential Terrorism Target Zones). Each Camp should provide all basic requirements for sustaining the lives of 10,000 citizens (see Appendix C.3 – Basic Requirement for Sustaining Human Resources).
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17.4.4.2 Local Terrorism Event Response Testing – Containment
Before a Containment Licence can be issued, all member states must demonstrate their ability to react to a Local Terrorism Event by performing a test of their facilities with a minimum of 100 citizens, who (in accordance with section 21.4.3 Live Test Procedure 3) must not be forewarned about their participation in the test.
Most critical of all was the need to pass a test to receive the Containment Licence from the High Command. The USA was pressed for time; they were planning to spread the H1K9 vaccine aggressively over the next three months and the Emergency Response camps were part of the plan for dealing with the outbreak.
Gather up ten thousand people at a time and give them all the vaccine: it was the only way they could hope to vaccinate one hundred per cent of the population. The rest of Gitmo Nation were looking to the USA for guidance. Whatever was achieved in today’s test would become the standard operating procedure around the world.
Today’s test was simple. A truck was going out onto the streets of New York, rounding up people who looked like they wouldn’t be missed for a few days. Then they would be vaccinated and given a secondary substance that would wipe their memory of the event. Not only would the test satisfy the council’s need and allow the USA to receive their containment licence, it would also be another field test of the binary weapon.
Out of the corner of his eye, Tom saw the cartoon plane disappear from the map on his laptop screen. He checked his watch: it was 18:03.
Doctor Andrew Conway sleeps with the fishes, he thought as he picked up the phone and told the Reuters news agency about the plane that had just crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
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