[Southack]

"Remember what Ken Abelik said ~ run that stuff through the mail and it gets smacked around quite handily. That facility in New Jersey is very modern and had the best stuff."

That's fine, but it should be *tested* to see if pure anthrax spores, with silica contamination dumped on top, suddenly aerosolize readily after going through mail processing.

My own opinion is that weaponization of anthrax takes a bit more thorough mixing (at an entirely different molecular level) than that, but why guess when we could test and KNOW?!

Also, keep in mind that it is highly unusual for contamination to be from only one compound/element. Your clothes will have more than one natural element on them after a day of wear outside, after all.

[muawiyah]

BTW, USPS had been using compressed air to clean equipment ~ post offices are incredibly dusty ~ lots of mail moving at near the speed of sound for hours on end, rubbing up against each other, and all that makes lots of dust.

After the anthrax attack they retrofited to use vacuum systems. Most of the aerosolization occurred when anthrax contamination on surfaces was hit with blasts of air at high pressure.

You would not believe......

[muawiyah]

BTW, I strongly suspect Ken had, in fact, "tested" everything you mention. But that was back, that was back, that was back in the USSR.