Posted on 02/20/2006 1:00:53 PM PST by serendepitylives
High school senior discovers ironing deactivates anthrax
By Jennifer Bails TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, February 20, 2006
Protecting yourself from biological weapons might be as simple as using a hot clothes iron.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Whazzat?
Might be hard to do if your envelopes have the little plastic window...
I don't have time for ironing, I have all of my mail sent to the dry cleaners.
This is a great idea except that a lot of people these days have no clue how to iron and don't own one.
If it is a question of living or dying, I expect they could learn.
This simply means that 85% of the men in this country will STILL die if mailed anthrax...
Hm...he proved it, not discovered it.
How can you afford to pay like.... $5.00 for a shirt to be dry cleaned? How do you justify paying that when you could wash and iron it youself?
Protecting yourself from biological weapons might be as simple as using a hot clothes iron.
absolutely irresponsible statement to release publicly.....even if that temp kills spores, the fallacious thought that you could safely iron a garment or anything contaminated with it is preposterous and negligent!
Little plastic windows no problem - just cover envelope with another piece of paper or cloth to protect plastic from sticking to iron and iron away.
Man. I hope I never get anthrax. Ironing myself sounds painful.
Like cauterize the inside of your nasal passages?
Or get one of these gizmos ... http://www.gizmag.com/go/2571/
Real men don't iron.....they take their crap to the dry cleaners
I'm not clear on this concept, althought I may have heard about it as a youth. Please explain? Does it have anything to do with football, beer or cars?
I think I pay like 1.50 a shirt (laundered, starched & pressed - not chemically cleaned,) so for business shirts it's like 7.50 a week.
I would gladly pay that than wrestle with an iron. I tried to convince the Mrs. years ago to do it, but she put the creases in all the wrong places, so I gave up. I'll do touch up ironing, but that's it.
obviously a fake story. no high school kid knows what an iron is.
What was a high school student doing with Anthrax?
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