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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6681)10/9/2001 1:39:05 AM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (3) of 27666
 
I thought Karen's article was excellent as well, and posted it over on the Foreign Affairs Thread. People are getting too worked up about Anthrax; I'm sure we could find things more scary to be afraid of.

the "Spanish Flu" which killed some 20-40 million people in 1918-19. Some of those folks reportedly would show Flu syptoms one afternoon, and die before the sun rose the next day.

That would be much worse! I never used to catch the flu/colds until I had children, who spent time with other children. Got sick all the time.

A contagious bug would certainly be something worse to fear than anthrax.

But everyday more mundane things are probably what authorities fear the most right now.

As an example, in Vancouver BC there is a man being held who another (convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam) has testified that he planned to take a fuel tanker truck, a bomb, make it into a much bigger bomb on wheels, and blow up something in a "predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Canada".

ugh.
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