Hell - I'm gonna hand out aluminum foil hats this year...
"How about dusting handles of gasloine pumps, or "display" shoes in the malls...or how about BOOKS in a library...sheeesh SOME people are so frigging paranoid... "
You're ignoring that there have been several suspicious purchases of thousands of dollars of Halloween candy by middle eastern men. Suspicious enough that the FBI has some of these men in custody.
Giving children candy that's been infected by a disease that has a 14 day period of dormancy would mean that these kids would be back in school infecting others for two weeks before the first symptoms showed up.
Dunno if you have kids, but schools are like giant petrie dishes. Germs spread quickly. Further, kids have less developed immune systems in general, and since all of these kids were born after 1972, none have been vaccinated.
This would be a far more effective way of starting a plague in numerous localities than gas pump handles or library books.
Admittedly, this is speculative, but we know that we're under terrorist attack, and biological attack... We know there's more to come.
And let me remind you, the FBI is involved... this is not so obviously "paranoia" as you'd like to believe.
There is a difference between paranoia and prudence. I would suggest that you ask someone to help you learn about it some time.
Are you aware that middle eastern men have purchased massive amounts of candy, some of which has been returned to the store shelves, and the rest cannot be found by the FBI?