Posted on 02/26/2003 9:24:42 AM PST by kabar
First, you have to know you were exposed to start treatment.
Second, treatment is not a vaccine-you have to be sure that the anthrax is no longer in your environment. If I am not mistaken, most places contaminated with last years letters are not useable to this day. Imagine downtown Chicago, Manhattan, Boston, San Fran and Denver, Miami etc. all given healthy doses of anthrax in various spots. Our cities would be virtual ghosttowns.
Third, the anthrax has to be suseptible to antibiotics. We can't assume because the warning shots were, that the real McCoy will be.
I am not sure what exactly is going on, but I think TGS is pretty close. And to anybody paying attention we are being babystepped in that direction. (Powell with the vial at UN, reports of Iraq having drones fitted with spray devices in our country, duct tape and plastic sheeting, etc.)
trained to be on the look out for outbreaks of Anthrax infection and emergency plans for that contingency
LOL!!! Have you looked around you or talked to anyone lately? If you went to the ER with signs of anthrax (similar to that of the flu) and expressed concerns that you might think you were exposed to anthrax-Do you really think you'd even get an xray taken-until you were on your death bed? If millions were exposed in one shot...it would be ugly.
Yes, but it's not time yet. In a war that will be viewed as the test of whether the civilized world can successfully deal with WMD in the hands of barbarians, we must be very confident of total victory. If we fail, Pandora's box will have been opened. We will not take a chance until we are as certain as we can be.
We are not yet sufficiently prepared, nor is there yet the depth of public support that would be required for prosecution of the war. I believe these prerequisites will come to pass, I would guess in 1 to 1 1/2 years, and that's when the war will happen.
Yes, support for war on Iraq is on the wane right now, but you can't extrapolate indefinitely. The depth of public support at some time in the future will depend on what happens between now and then.
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