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I am having a difficult time stressing over anthrax. Chances are that around 800 people will die this week in automobile accidents. Where is the panic over that?

I wonder how these hysteria-prone people can even make it through a day. How do they ever get enough nerve to climb stairs? It is a dangerous world, but on the list of things to be afraid of, anthrax has got to be pretty low. I'd place it on the list somewhere between ballpoint pens and paper clips.

I am having a difficult time stressing over anthrax. Chances are that around 800 people will die this week in automobile accidents.

So just what is an acceptable anthrax ratio? Would 10 anthrax cases per 800 car accidents be acceptable to you? We all know that nobody here gets out alive, but, driving unlike anthrax is an acceptable risk and even if one succumbs while driving it is assumed that it was in fact an accident and nothing could be done to change it. Anthrax on the other hand is not an accident, and must be treated as one would treat any other direct attack.

I am quite amused at the folly of some here who foolishly believe in the heard mentality. Just because the number of cases are so low they think they have nothing to worry about, the idea seems to be that anthrax is something other people get. I believe we are being lied to and this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are no old fools. In the end we are all dead, it is what happens between now and then in a persons life that makes the difference.

that is unless you found out that your mail that you handled today went through the same sorting machine as the anthrax letter. gee now what do you do? put the mail in the trash and go wash your hands...who knows maybe its too late. wheres your armchair quaterbacking now? someone else said it here already more people will die of heart disease this year than died in the attacks on sept 11th. does that mean we shouldnt worry about other attacks? i.e. bombing etc. iowa is far away from any of these places doused with anthrax. i however am not. location tends to bring things a bit closer to home. one of the hijackers used to get hid hair cut in the same county that i live in. the first anthrax was deliviered within miles of the hijackers apartments. come to DC and hang out. we'd love the company you can handke my mail and let me know how it turns out.