Mods, please leave this here in general and don't move it to polls, because this is very important.

And by the way, no im not scared, because I believe the government will do a good job in getting rid of it.

I'm not scared, because only about 7 people have actually gotten anthrax. If this was or becomes a major outbreak, then I think I'd be scared, but it isn't, so I'm not too worried.

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No, because only one person has died from it so far and everyone else has been lucky enough to be treated. I'll probably only be scared if it comes around to where I live, which is highly doubtful.

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No, because it's not likely I will ever come in contact with it.

It's just the insane media that is hyping it up. I refuse to watch anymore of news shows because of rediculous amount of panic they try to induce. I now only watch the Daily Show for news, it's not a great source but it's funny. And that's what we need instead of panic.

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no, but if the inhaling form comes, then i will be scraed

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I'm going to stick this thread because I think it is an important subject to discuss.

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The media always makes things worse than they really are. I don't watch the news either, im sick of hearing the same thing over and over again. One more thing, thanks for keeping this is the general talk forum Erik.

I am not scared of Anthrax. It's easily treatable with something as simple as Pennicilin. Also, the Anthrax is being mailed to famous people. I have my theories about who did this, and I mainly suspect the "Black Helicopter anti-government gun rights freaks". And natruallly occuring Anthrax? Not scared at all!


"Look, Titan is stopped on the lift hill!"
"Look, a guy in Florida got anthrax while camping!"
"Oh no, Superman crashed!"
"Oh no! A woman in Arizona got sick!"


It's the same number of normal cases, except they are being sensationalized!

I was scared, until I learned that 6 or 7 peeps got it. Then I am like, "Does the media have anything else to do?" I agree Kraken, it, like coaster accidents, is being sensationalized. If the attacks hadn't have happened, the media probably wouldn't do anything with it.

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Uh-oh...I'm allergic to Pennicillin (as well as latex)

However, I would doubt I'm a terrorist's primary target. So I'm not really scared of it.

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It is really nothing to be scared of yet unless you have reason to believe you will come in contact with it (working at post office etc..)I'm still scared silly to go on planes though.

Zach

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Don't worry, there are loads of other medicines, like Sipro and Doxycyclene.

I'm not frightened one bit by the anthrax threat. For one thing, the threat has always been there, but now it's getting wide media exposure. Secondly, that exposure has been blown wildly out of proportion - only 7 people out of the 280m people in the USA have contracted the illness - about 20 times that number probably die on US roads every day!

The media in England have been the same as the US - hyping everything up to sell papers and get TV ratings instead of reporting the facts. Some of the stuff has been laughable, such as advising people to buy gas masks. They're useless unless you wear them 24-7!

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Andy Rathe

ummm. no. They are accually not hyping it well the people are making it hyped. On this very wierd and funny radio thing they know people who are olice and each police officer has gotten like 12 false alarms. There was a person who called a false alarm. the person brought the mail in ate pizza on top of the mail parmazon cheese fell on the mail The person saw it banned the house thinking it was anthrax! LOL! Stupid person!