OT: Bowling for Columbine

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by jimbob:
The one that really got me was the Anthrax scare. Does joe-trailer park really think he's important enough to get an anthrax letter? I mean honestly, short of having major celebrity status, we're all pretty safe.

Uh dude, how many of the five people killed during that thing were celebreties? Only one, and that's only if you count that first guy that died as a celebrety which is a stretch. He was a photographer for a tabloid newspaper. How many people outside of his little circle knew him before he contracted the disease. And how many of the five were even the targets of the peson sending the antrax? Again, maybe just him. Two postal workers that handled one of the letters, and two other ladies that just got it somehow. Probably by cross contamination with mail containing antrax spores.

The Antrax scare was about fear, yes that is correct. But you didn't have to be a famous person to be afraid of it. Like the sniper killings in D.C. it picked it's victims pretty much at random. But unlike the sniper killings you didn't know immedietly you'd been picked. All they could tell you was it caused flu-like symptoms in the early stages. It's no wonder everybody that came down with a runny nose started thinking about it.

Geoschmo