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Though the threat of bioterrorism is small, some Pentagon officials are not taking any chances.

Small? Morons. Someone has a source for high quality Anthrax toxin and they are using it. Where do they get off trying to placate the citizens with the word "small"? It's here. It happened. It may happen or have happened again already.

With all due respect, it's time to take off the gloves.

Or time to put the gloves ON and a mask too!

It's my thought that the terrorists did not prepare this in a way that left spore particles fine enough to really penetrate the lungs. Thus they managed to sicken very few people. Perhaps they exposed hundreds and most did not get sufficient quantities of the spore to sicken them. Since this disease is not significantly contagious, we are in for a couple weeks of nervousness and then an end to these cases unless they are still working on the distribution problem. Umm, it might be wise if you're working in an office not to open mail too enthusiastically. WASH YOUR HANDS VERY CAREFULLY AND OFTEN!!!!!!!

We need to be thinking in terms of what a natural flu epidemic can do to this country at this point in time and act accordingly. Influenza experts have been predicting an especially dangerous flu season this year even without the events of 9/11. Tell your sick coworkers NOT TO COME TO WORK and keep sick kids at home. Our martyrish habit of going to work sick could literally endanger the lives of millions. FLU ISN'T JUST TWO WEEKS OF MISERY. IT HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE IN HISTORY THAN ANY OTHER AIR BORNE DISEASE. And I have a feeling that dying of wild-strain flu is just as miserable of dying of terrorist-spread anthrax.

Small? Morons. Someone has a source for high quality Anthrax toxin and they are using it. Where do they get off trying to placate the citizens with the word "small"? It's here. It happened. It may happen or have happened again already.

So far the threat appears to be small. If more people get it, than the threat is becomes less and less small, but our emergency rooms aren't exactly filling up with people dying from anthrax right now. I'd say the chances of dying in a plane wreck are small as well. Doesn't mean it can't happen, or that people aren't planning for it to happen, just that the probability of it happening is small.