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To: kevin
A natural enough suspicion, but if it's biological warfare it's pretty badly done. Antibiotic-resistant Strep has been with us for decades. Food poisoning has been with us for all of history, recorded or otherwise. West Nile isn't (mostly) fatal and confers a lifelong immunity, and the Norwalk virus doesn't do much exept make you vomit.

I'm thinking if we have a problem here it's hypersensitivity brought on by the knowledge that there really are some very bad people out there who would be happy to do very bad things to us...if they could. But biowarfare turns out to be much harder than it sounds, which is one reason it wasn't used all that much. We mustn't let our guard down, but IMHO this isn't it.

21 posted on 12/16/2002 6:22:49 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
"I'm thinking if we have a problem here it's hypersensitivity brought on by the knowledge that there really are some very bad people out there...

Bill..when is the last time 5,000 US Marines went into stand down mode on training immediately preceding a wartime event or at any other time?...i don't

Do you remember last year, that in less than 2 months time more than four cruise ships sailed in with really sick people?...I don't..

Remember only 5 or 6 years ago were all 50 states contaminated with West Nile Virus, blood supplies weakened by it, poultry and livestock infected? And btw...too many it is fatal, they'll find no comfort in your hypersensitivity blind fold.

Has it been routine for an American president in the last 40 years to encourage and order innoculations for Small Pox? ..It hasn't..

Remember when we were kids, all the parents on the block were being given Potassium Iodine/Iodate for their families safety?..I don't.

Think! This is not hypersensitivity...this is a problem.

31 posted on 12/16/2002 6:57:46 PM PST by kevin
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