Posted on 10/22/2001 10:40:41 AM PDT by newsperson999
ok. Before you flame me...lets discuss this..
2 postal workers are dead(and at different locations) 2 more confirmed with inhalation anthrax...maybe 9 more cases..it takes 8,000 or more spores to get sick from anthrax..
Well they didn't open the mail there they just sorted it, yet still somehow all that anthrax must have goten into the air...
The scary thing is this. How many spores got onto mail that went ot the general public?!!!
This may be much bigger then we are lead to believe. Or it may not. Please put your 2 cents in.
They will become harmless in approximately 18,250 to 36,500 days.
Seriously.
This is going to sound evasive, but "it all depends".
If they're airborne in a closed location, with slow ventilation and not a lot of people moving around, and, there's a suffient number of 'em in the air, then they will hang there for a long time. Don't count on them falling to the ground like normal "dust". They are microscopic, and will hang in the air like nobody's business. Don't think "dust", think "smoke". Same principle -- microscopic particles that are too light to push their way through the air to the ground. When was the last time you saw a pile of smoke on the floor, having settled out of the air?
Eventually, like smoke, they'll deposit themselves equally on every available surface -- and when it's disturbed, it'll go right back into the air.
The only comfort -- and safety -- will come from not having it there in the first place. Once it's there, we're not going to outlive it. It'll stay there, and keep killing, unless it's removed -- and that will be a costly and dangerous assignment.
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I gotta wonder how these smug folks would behave if once per month, always at random, someone sniped a customer at their favorite shopping location as they were walking from the car to the store. Or maybe inside the store, to make in more sporting, since people could have a driver whisk 'em right up to the door to avoid being taken down.
Would they make a show of going shopping just to show everyone that they weren't afraid, because the odds were in their favor? Would they sweat? Just a little? Or perhaps a whole lot?
Or maybe they'd discover that they had more pressing business that day, and wouldn't be able to make it to the store. Will they call someone else and ask 'em to pick something up while they're out?
I've received an amazing increase in my email spamload the past few weeks. I talked with the guy who owns my ISP. He's an old friend of mine. He said that as of late, the spamload is staggering, almost bringing his servers to their knees. Several of the spams I've received have been garbage messages, with a trojan/virus file attached. (My firewall protects me from them.)
I'll put two and two together, and suspect that the terrorists have purchased some of those godforsaken "99 million addresses!" spamware CD collections.
I'll extrapolate from that, and weigh the odds that they've also bought some of the innumerable snailmail address lists.
I'll then wonder if some smirks will come off some faces if "random" people other than famous government and media people start getting powder-thrax in the mail.
I know that when I considered the odds, I had my wife go dig out our HEPA paint mask.
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