Posted on 10/09/2001 12:15:18 AM PDT by cgk
Elsewhere, a state official in Virginia confirmed that health officials there were monitoring a possible case of anthrax at a northern Virginia hospital.
Prince William Hospital in Manassas, Va., contacted the state health department with a possible anthrax diagnosis, "one of several possible diagnoses" for the victim, whose name was not released, said M. Boyd Marcus, Gov. Jim Gilmore's chief of staff. He said a germ culture from the victim was transported to a state laboratory in Richmond on Monday evening and would take at least 24 hours to analyze.
The state government was told that the Virginia victim had either been an employee of or a contractor for The Sun, Marcus said. He had no details, and he said it wasn't known whether the victim had been in Florida of late or had had direct contact with Blanco or Stevens.
Just like the Greyhound nut.
Russian plane that was shot down.
The retarded kid who tried to get into the cockpit at Ohaire today.
I wouldnt at all be suprised that this guy has Anthrax, because he worked with him. I was merely reasponding to the guy who sounded like he was about to piss all over himself.
I think its safe to conclude that we now know why the terrorist were inquiring about crop dusters. They had anthrax and were looking for a way to distribute it. Perhaps they tried several times to distribute the spores in other various ways and then concluded that a crop dusting plane might achieve better dispersal. We should probably assume that this building had anthrax placed into the ventilation system. Everyone in the building was exposed, propbably only a few or small percentage will exhibit symptoms. They probably put the anthrax in the building just before 9/11/01. This would be an incubation period of 3 to 4 weeks. We should probably also assume that they may have tried other dispersal methods before they committed suicide. Now the FBI needs to come clean and let us know if any of the suicide terrorist had traces of anthrax anywhere in their residence. We need to know if the anthrax terrorist are dead or are still out there experimenting with dispersal methods.
Like I said a couple of weeks ago, I would have dropped a tac nuke on every terorist camp within Afghanistan the wednesday after the WTC and Pentagon attack. We need to give these terrorist the fear of god or at least something very very powerful. They are using weapons of mass destruction on us. Death toll currently over 5,000.
Let me add my vote to the "calm down" (at least a bit, anyways) lobby. It seems 99.9% likely this guy was in the same building as the other two. In other words, this isn't an indication of a second attack, just an indication of another victim from a known attack.
Not that I don't understand your feelings. I've already packed up and moved out of the big city for this exact reason.
We are at total war and cannot wait for fatal lessons on our homeland battlefield.
This is a war of annihilation. Those SOBs want to kill your family and everyone you know.
Doubt it. One of the reports says authorities think between September 23 and 25.
I think the cropdusters were an option up until September 11, but not any more.
I think that any effective dispersal of spores must be undetected or unsuspected for at least a few weeks in order to infect a large number of people past the 'point of no return'.
You know, it's pretty sick that I'm starting to think like a terrorist. But I guess we have to, these days, don't we?
Too bad the GD Clinton Administration killed private healthcare in our nation.
Get this one Freepers... (and I just joined this board!)
Think about this... if your town as a couple of doctor's offices for Internal Medicine, Family Practice, or Pediatrics... those offices are either owned by a medical group or the doctor him/herself.
There are very few strong solo offices in California now.
Why?
Because the HMO's do something called "capitated" contracting. In capitated contracting, the office is paid a flat-fee REGARDLESS of how much work they do for you. Most of the time, the HMO pays an IPA (Independent Physicians' Association) about $50.00 per month for you. The IPA then contracts with individual doctor's offices for about $9.00 So, out of the $120.00 per month you pay the insurer, only $9.00 gets to the physician.
Now, if the hapless doctor ends up in the a biological warfare front line, the poor guy goes broke. He won't have enough money for drugs, supplies, and vaccines.
Who supported the HMO industry and why is the system like this?
YOU GUESSED IT.
HILLARY.
Now, guess what happens. We don't have enough supplies, offices, doctors, hospital beds, or test facilities to diagnose this thing.
But, alas, GRAY DAVIS claims that his administration will support the people and train "thousands" of health care providers. Gov. Gray-out is nuts. You can count the number of testing facilities in Southern California equipped to identify Anthrax on one hand. You see, thanks to the same people, they passed a law called CLIA that forced diagnostic tests (like finding the germ) out of doctor's offices. So, now, instead of the doctor making a diagnosis in 20 minutes, it takes 48 hours.
AND, the doctor STILL doesn't get paid for it (because he's "capitated")!
Guys, I'll bet the dead guy in Florida was insured through an HMO plan. Wish someone in the Palm Beach press would find out.
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