Posted on 10/26/2001 4:29:08 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Good Morning!!
Do not let them die in vain!!
There a lot of stuff to get everyone up to speed this morning, so I'm breaking the opening rant into sections.
ANTHRAX ATTACK
Another confirmed case of pneumonic anthrax - the postal worker in Sterling, VA, is diagnosed with the malady.
Anthrax has been found at the CIA, though termed "medically insignificant".
Anthrax has been found at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Anthrax has been found in a mail sorting facility in Manhattan.
Another possibly tainted envelope was reported at the New York Post, though it is likely "collateral mail".
Several suburban mail facilities in Washington, DC, are undergoing tests for anthrax.
Over 10,000 mail workers are on antibiotics.
CDC has changed policy regarding treatment of anthrax: exposed people should get 60 days of antibiotics, not the current 10 they are receiving. Pneumonic victims to receive multiple antibiotics - Cipro and at least two others.
SOUTH ASIA THEATER OF OPERATIONS
US warplanes and Northern Alliance troops step up attacks around Mazer-e-Sharif, though it is uncertain when the city will be captured.
Northern Alliance would like the United States to step up its attacks. The United States bombs Kabul and Kandahar.
Two American fighter aircraft narrowly missed a SAM shot.
There is growing criticism the United States is conducting the war too slowly.
Uzbekistan agreed to open some of its river ports to allow relief supplies to go to Afgoneistan.
HOME FRONT
The last President was mailed salmonella.
The Senate overwhelmingly (98-1) approves anti-terrorism legislation. The President to sign it today.
Groups have appealed to Tom Ridge to fortify the Nation's nuclear reactors.
A $1.4 billion package for emergency preparedness has been introduced in the Senate.
The UNITED WE STAND postage stamp will be available November 1 in Post Offices in Washington, DC, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
OTHER ITEMS
I learned this morning that another worker in my building - someone whom I've known almost since the first day I worked here, 14 years ago now - had her mother pass yesterday. I would ask for your prayers for her.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
He also made a statement about how hard this was on the service families, because this deployment comes at the end of extended war games, and pledged that the government would do everything it could to assist the families.
It is a chilly day in Virginia this morning. Sunny, but chilly.
If you get my point.
Latest Noonan:
Intimately.
That's why I get tweaked by this approach. It's incrementalism. And it is an almost universal axiom that critical problems are critically underfunded.
It always starts with a low level until something is found wrong. Then it goes to a new, higher level, until something is found wrong. Then it goes to a new, higher level, until something is found wrong. Then it goes to a new, higher level, until something is found wrong. Then it goes to ....
Thanks Chair for the great recap of news as a beginning this am. That certainly catches me up... and fortifies my position that I don't need a TV. LOL
Bit... I had to laugh when I saw your post. I started through that stuff last evening then got tired of it so I just pulled the plug on the net. But no, no flashing red on the hub, did check the IP addresses and a cursory check. It's on the Win2KPro box "BigMac" I'm sure for I can see BigMac from Edinburgh (server) when I'm up. I'll figure it out but you can't imagine how good it is to get input from you. It helps with the thinking when the thinking isn't working.
S_Y... thinking and praying for you and yours. It is interesting to observe how these politicians work and for much of this now it is politics. I think they might have done a bit better, for the privacy issues, to put a calendar cap on the bill.
OM... you can't live with them and can't live without 'em. Am glad daughter is back and pray for patience. She'll learn and do well I'm sure.
kachina... did you use up all the material you were to pick up on the way home the other day? Don't mind our "geek" talk, we're just trying to impress the rest of you.
Lysie... gulfcoast6... Miss Marple... kassie... Molly...
Hi to each of you.
I don't expect they will act responsibly, not at all. Just witnessing the chaos that is Washington this week, I'm not sure it can get any worse.
Now, that calls for a spot of tea.
On another local bit of news, Eli Lilly Company here in Indianapolis is working on smallpox TREATMENT investigations, because they think some of their current anti-cancer drugs may be effective in the treatment of smallpox, and they have offered to make their scientists available to the government without charge. (I believe they will continue to pay salaries if these people work for the government.) I think that is an excellent contribution, and one which is probably playing with local corporations in other areas of the country which we seldom hear about, BECAUSE THE MEDIA IS DOING THE ALL-ANTHRAX COVERAGE 24/7!!!
There was a large emergency mayoral conference earlier this week. Fox News covered excerpts. Mayors in large cities discussed how they are reviewing their emergency prep plans and realizing they are wowfully inadequate for bio attack scenarios as reviewed in the current paradigm. They are calling on the Feds for money to get to first responders.
There was also a tidbit yesterday in terms of an announcement by the CDC carried by Fox News. Those field test kits used by first responders to test for anthrax may not be worth a darn. Seems they may be giving up false negatives (they also may be giving up false positives, but that's the safe position). CDC has advised that no evac/entry decisions should be based solely on those kits. (I would offer that a false positive should cause an evac order, just to be safe.)
That is good news. It would be good if we can find a treatment, for now there is none.
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