25th February 2003, 12:11 PM
It's not a bacteria, it's a virus, isn't it?
Here's the thing people miss. Anthrax is NOT contageous! If you catch it, that's just you who caught it once you have wiped off all the white powder. I know it's pretty lethal when you catch it in certain ways, but I'm SO sick of how everyone is acting like there could be an anthrax epidemic, when there CAN'T. Anthrax is the most ineffecient method of a biological weapon I can think of. It's only real purpose is surgical strikes against a single person or a small number of people. It could never "spread like wildfire".
People should worry a LOT more about smallpox or bubonic plague. That's stuff that actually could spread like wildfire.
Here's the thing people miss. Anthrax is NOT contageous! If you catch it, that's just you who caught it once you have wiped off all the white powder. I know it's pretty lethal when you catch it in certain ways, but I'm SO sick of how everyone is acting like there could be an anthrax epidemic, when there CAN'T. Anthrax is the most ineffecient method of a biological weapon I can think of. It's only real purpose is surgical strikes against a single person or a small number of people. It could never "spread like wildfire".
People should worry a LOT more about smallpox or bubonic plague. That's stuff that actually could spread like wildfire.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)