Paul, who's in the Army, and who's a doctor, and who was in the Chemical Corps, all of which makes him the closest thing to an in-house anthrax expert we have here at Ishbadiddle, writes:
3 people have died of anthrax. If you can be at all objective about it, you will realize you have nothing to fear. That's the bottom line. You probably have a greater chance of picking up T.B. in an airplane or having a premature heart attack. I think one of the reasons biological weapons weren't used by the U.S. in World War 2 is that they are ineffective. But they seem to be effective as a weapon of terror. Because of the panic, our government is going to spend untold millions to beef up our ability to defend against biological weapons. I think there are cheaper but less palatable ways to improve our security, such as tighter control on visas and resident aliens.
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