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.
And your point is? This IS MURDER....makes it a little different, doesn't it?
Trillions.
(yes, trillions)
Enough to infect a lot of people. Individual results may vary depending on nostril size. ;-)
Seriously, think of how devastating it would be if large amounts of money were contaminated with anthrax. Think of how many times a day that money would change hands. Sounds like it could be used as a plot to make the complete transition to a cashless society. Scary.
This is a random act in that the victims were not chosen a head of time. But someone did put the bio agent in an envelope, and did purposefully mail it, expecting sickness and death to follow the package as it went its way. We are talking about murder here. That is not the same as most highway deaths caused without malice.
Panic no...and I am not seeing much panic at all, if you mean purposeless stampeding over a cliff. Prudent actions and caution based on the information available, yes.
Why are there those who don't want us to discuss the possibilities so that we can be prudent in a dangerous situation?
Mail seems the favored delivery system. You can ask all your friends and relatives to either call you or use email. You can have your bills payed directly out of your checking account.
You can then dump all your mail into the garbage unopened or get a post office box and never go check your mail.
Personally, I feel the terrorists have won if I experience terror or worry. I refuse to submit. The old saw of it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees comes to mind. I am not trying blow smoke up my own Hillory, I just refuse to let it get to me.
The only exception being is that I am my family wash with soap, particularly our hands, more often than we used to and we have cleaned the house very thoroughly; Washing down everything with Lysol and bleach.
Some of us who are from D.C. have a very different perspective....
There has been a bank cleared out in West Palm Beach a few blocks from my house.
What you thought was incorrect.
What we have today is not only terrorists controlling by fear (no more planes flying), but conservatives once again following the decisions of the left.
How many auto related deaths have there been during the past 4 weeks? You may want to reconsider driving home.
How To Lie With Statistics 101. In normal parlance, those 20,000 die of "old age."
What is it with people that they still don't get it? This is not the attack. You don't execute an anthrax attack by sending out letters of powdered anthrax with warnings to "take Penicillin." This is just to let us know they have it. The attack is being saved for later, for the confrontation with Iraq. Count on it.
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