Mail Carriers Would Deliver Anthrax Drugs

Ferretlover

POSTED: 05:03 PM ET, 10/ 1/2008 by Derek Kravitz

Cog

When you consider that most of the US households have daily delivery of mail, this seems a real efficient way of going about it. Lot easier then people flooding into a central place in a city to get their antibiotics.

Dreamtwister · Fission Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2267

Not to mention, it makes it WAY easier to identify which trucks to hijack.
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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

Anthrax claims the benefit of a vicious sounding name.

In reality, it's a crappy biological weapon that is not spread easily and is not particularly virulent.
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vilemerchant · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 07, 2008 Posts: 122

Isn't it usually the postal service that is used to actually carry out anthrax attacks Cool

RedStateGreen

Why anthrax?
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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

I mean, it's just preposterous to even talk about anthrax being used as a weapon against the U.S..

The problem is, most people don't know what the fork a bacterium is.

Most people will still demand antibiotics for their virally infected kid.

So it's an easy scare tactic.

For G-d's sake, Anthrax isn't even spread directly between people.

Bottom line is, the only good biological weapon would be an engineered virus, and maybe a bacterium, that spread rapidly, killed slowly, and was extremely infectious.

Further, you'd need to have the vaccine/AB treatment regimen ready to go, because your own people would contact the contagion at some point.

Personally I think you'd need to get your head checked if you found yourself making the argument that you thought it was a good move to release an engineered virus upon your enemies - no matter how well you think you have it figured out, DNA is a bitch.

One mutation, and BAM, your entire population becomes susceptible to contagion because your treatment is no longer valid.

Of course, if you didn't mind a little culling . . .
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EnergyUnlimited · Fusion Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 3309

Micki

Nothing to see here. Just normal mis-quotes by the press.

IgnoranceIsBliss

Assuming this is even a valid threat, I guess this is the best plan using resources that are already in place, but it has big flaws.

(1) Will they just leave the pills in the mailbox if no one is home?

Hello, we already have thieves stealing outgoing checks out of our boxes, washing off the ink, and re-writing them.

(2) Do we really trust the mail carriers? My local service is pretty bad. They lose our Netflix all the time, and someone stole an $85 ride on tractor that I ordered for my son. It was tracked as far as the local USPS depot/ warehouse, but never delivered. They have also put mail in my car (???) and put our entire delivery in another person's box several houses away.

Also, why did it take 7 years, to put this in place if the threat was there after 9/11? If I get a delivery of some pills in the next few weeks, I guess I better vote for McCain to keep me safe in these dangerous times!

How about putting money where it really matters, such as training our emergency room doctors. I have a friend who's an emergency room MD in a hospital right across the river from NYC. He said they never received any training at all concerning terror attacks. What the heck are we spending those Dept of Homeland Security funds on?

erb

great name and Anthrax is also a killer band
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Loki · Expert Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 1298 Location: Cascadia

Well, some of them are already delivering other kinds of drugs....

I'm not sure what the point of this anthrax plan is. The anthrax threat ain't exactly keeping me up at night.
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Dreamtwister · Fission Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2267