[Budge]

I'm a little, no, a lot sick of hearing about anthrax.

I would love to have the opprotunity to ask one of the "experts" if, since there have been so few deaths, could it possibly be that we are only noticing and testing for it now because of 9/11. Couldn't it be that many deaths attributed to the flu in years past were actually anthrax, but since no one was testing for it, it went unoticed?

That may be a dumb idea, but I would like to know.

[gswilder]

Budge, I have wondered the same thing. I too wonder if people die every year from Anthrax and nobody has noticed. I mean the post office person in DC who died went to the doctor the day before his death, and they thought he had the flu. I know he didn't tell them he worked at the post office, but with the unbelievable hightened sensitivity, I can't believe the doctor didn't consider it a possibility.

It's kind of similar to what we've all heard about all money being tainted with cocaine. Maybe it's the same with Anthrax; maybe it's in more places than we'd normally think.

Mind you, I am not discounting that there is some effort underway with some group to spread Anthrax. I'm just not convinced it is related to the 9-11 happenings. Since the known intended victims were liberal media or democrats, I am a tad concerned it is some internal US group doing it. Not saying it's a VRWC, but some militant US group.