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Topic: Anthrax does not scare me
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Ouroboros
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posted 10-20-2001 12:51 PM PT (US)  
...and I wish they'd stop reporting it on the news.
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JJoker
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posted 10-21-2001 04:45 AM PT (US)
Ditto. |
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JJoker
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posted 10-21-2001 04:46 AM PT (US)
but, i don't watch the news anyway, so...nevermind :D |
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Gladrial
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posted 10-22-2001 09:44 PM PT (US)
Well, I watch the news and while it doesn't scare me, I still know that if the government employed mail worker is going to wear and mask and gloves to handle mail so I am I! I feel like the government is hiding something from us. Now, they announced tonight two postal workers have died from the inhaled kind. Where has this news been hiding?For a mere 35 cents per family, those goobs could do a mass mailing. But, I really think the supply of Anthrax spores has to be limited as well as Taliban funds so I will not fret. I was fretting, there could be shortage of the meds needed to treat this but that has been resolved since Bayer stepped up production. It is treatable and not transmittable from person to person. These facts take the scare out but I still choose to be careful and lay my mail in the sun in the yard for a while. The sun kills it. This takes care of it in case my mail rubbed up against some package with Anthrax on it. Then I wash my hands right away, then I quarentine the mail to a special location in the basement while I go through the inside of it. I know it sounds crazy but I AM doing it. Then wash hands again. Whew! Needless to say I am tired. I get sooooo much fan mail. hahahahahaha |
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Ouroboros
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posted 10-23-2001 02:44 AM PT (US)
I think the States are overcome with media-sponsored hysteria. When 500 people die, all within the same week, from a snail-mail anthrax attack, it'll be worth taking notice of, I think. Until then, local news, report on the effectiveness of the elementary school's bake sale in generating revenue to buy books.As far as terrorists go, the unabomber was far more interesting - and even he was scarcely worth 10 seconds of airtime on the news in terms of the actual value of the information that was being delivered. I wonder how many people have been dying of anthrax prior to Sept. 11th but, just because no one was looking, people attributed the deaths to pneumonia, the flu, or other problems. |
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Gladrial
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posted 10-23-2001 12:12 PM PT (US)
Mere observations...
1.Well, now the little red dots on the map are increasing, as far as where the Anthrax threats are showing up.
2. I watch as this postman stacks all these white bins containing mail so high and then picks them up to carry them. They are heavy it seems so he is breathing in hard as he walks past me carrying this into a building. The stack of bins is so high that his nose was actually breathing into the mail bin.3. Two postal worker deaths now found to be Anthrax, the kind that has been grounded down so fine it travels on the air better. This is called "weapons grade." Is this mail guy doing all he can to prevent the bacteria from going in his lungs? Answer: No I put a note in the mailbox to my postman as follows:
Dear mailman, I strongly recommend that you take precautionary measures against Antrax. I suggest you wear and painters mask and rubber gloves. Also please heed the FBI warnings of today and please discard any questionable mail including mail with a strange odor or powder or stain or foreign postmark as there is no need for it in our box. Thank you
While I am not in fear of the Anthrax itself, I think I am in fear that some people are just idiots. If given anti-biotics in 24 hours you have a 60% chance of making it. I don't like the odds. I strongly suggest that people wake up and take
pre-cautions. |
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Gladrial
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posted 10-23-2001 12:27 PM PT (US)
I think that is my problem, I have been keeping up with news a little too much. When I didn't life seemed cheerier. * Gladrial throws TV out the window right behind all the mail!* weeeeeeeeee ;)
Now, all better. |
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