"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.
I know this because I was one of the last children to be vaccinated for smallpox in 1982.
Of course if this is weapons grade smallpox, it does not matter if you have been vaccinated for smallpox or not, because it will probably kill you either way.
It will be the SNEAKY crap you should all be obsessing over (if you don't have a life and want to waste your time obsessing)...like the gasoline pump handles, patriotic t-shirts hanging on a rack in a large public mall on sale for 50% off(no woman can avoid that!), potatoes lying in a grocery store...get real, the terrorists have another slew of victims....all of you obsessing over a pagan ritual begging for candy...
I guess the "Only thing to fear is fear itself" is wasted on a whole lot of you...
AND let's face facts...just the WHOLE sneakiness of this EVENT has caused more hullabahoo then any poisoning so far...sheesh people...get a grip!