NO JOKE!!! The news just came ion here locally and the postal people, the Mayor and some Doctor said anthrax was just found in three locations in a stamping handling facility, here in KC,MO. No one has shown any symptoms yet, but the tests are comfirmed as 'Preliminarily positive', pending confirmation from the CDC. Apparently is was found in some plastic bags which were used in the handling of some mail which was handled last thursday, here, requiring special stamp handling from the Brentwood facility in DC and were shipped here directly, not in contact with other mail. I do not know where in town this local facility is, as they kinda forgot to mention that part.
This is NO JOKE!!! I plan to hold all mail and refuse any deliveries from them for at least a couple of weeks? Why chance it. They say there was cross-over to the regular mail, but they also said it would not spread like this. Be alert!
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Welcome to bioterrorism Preston.
We've been dealing with it here for weeks now. We currently have 3 post offices closed. Walk into one (if you dare) and you'll find all the employees with full face resperators and heavy rubber gloves...stuff you won't see on TV to prevent a panic.
If everyone drove by everyday to see blocks of rubble or a Pentagon with a 3 story open crash hole (like I do) The country and media would stop criticizing the bombing and start supporting the war effort.
Bioterrorism came to your town? Now you know how we feel.
Take care. Stay Healthy.
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Bluck bluck bluck...the sky is falling!
The following is by Col.Jeff Cooper, Ret.
[QUOTE} Back when I was at Command and Staff School at Quantico, we had a whole week devoted to the subject of biological warfare. The matter was highly classified so no publicity was allowed out, but one thing that sticks in my mind was the fact that anthrax was denigrated as a successful instrument of biological warfare. It was considered too hard to distribute and insufficiently lethal. What we did not realize was that large numbers of deaths are not necessary to upset or intimidate a timid population. From the media it appears that the attempt by the bad guys to cow the American people by the threat of a biological epidemic is moderately successful. We have now all heard stories verging from the pitiful to the ridiculous about our so-called airport security. The biological assassins have killed only three people - yet - but that does not mean that we are not all shook up. So now we can expect them to hit with something else. What we did not learn at school was that biological warfare may or may not be deadly, but it is definitely intimidating. The bad guys claim that they are brave while we are cowards. I do not think that is true, but we cannot deny that we are off to a shaky start. [/QUOTE]
Last year over 50,000 people were killed in auto accidents...we all still drive, don't we!
[ November 01, 2001: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :
Did ya get your flu shot yet?
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Maybe Col. Jeff can go down to D.C.'s post office and sort mail since he's not concerned. It's easy to say stuff in the confines of a sterilized class room.
Col. Jeff would be highly ****ed if his pension check where stuck in limbo because none of the postal workers will set foot inside the mail processing plant.
He'd sing a different tune if it really affected him.
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Take a bath and go outside. UV rays and moisture kills that s**t. So washer your hands before you dig for that booger.
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
These weapons are about terror,if you remain calm,you will probably not die. A chemical weapons attack that kills a lot of people is incredibly hard to do with military grade agents and equipment,so you can imagine how hard it would be for terroist. The more you know about this stuff,the more you realize how hard it is to use.
Posted by Gavin Chachere (Member # 1443) on :
Well...i've said this b4....and i'm not making fun of the situation b/c it is real.....BUT....all thes anthrax spores did not just turn up magically after these letters.The ones in the affected areas,yes,but if you swab any building,home etc thats over a year old you will probably turn up a few anthrax spores,just as you will turn up tetanus,staph,e.coli,a few viruses etc etc etc etc.In fact,if you've ever played out in the dirt as a child you've already come into contact with all the above and more. I also don't buy the line that these are the first anthrax deaths since 1976....thats a load of crap.Doctors don't know squat about it anymore and you can pretty much bet that many cases of "viral and bacterial pneumonia","mysterious chest colds" or "people who died from the flu" died from inhalation anthrax or something similiar and noone knew of or thought to look for it. Should this make everyone terrified to open or recieve mail? NO...the meida is making it a damn circus as usual...remeber the postman is like the canary in the coal mine right now...if you find yours dead in the yard,its probably not a good idea to open the mailbox. Until then,all you can do is what you did 6 months ago...get the mail,look at it and throw it away.
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
I really like my mailman. Two weeks ago I joked to him that he was soon going to be wearing a hazmat suit. Now maybe a 'canary yellow' hazmat suit? I will tell him and make sure he does not cash in the farm. That comment about the postal workers being our canaries in the coal mine....very sick! You should be ashamed and applauded for the humor!
Posted by Bob Ficucell (Member # 1460) on :
I'm much more worried about the vinyl shop down the street that is selling 3'x10' banners for $39.95 !
Posted by pierre (Member # 1462) on :
Mike, it would appear that you don't know Jeff Cooper very well.
