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Anthrax and Driving a Convertible

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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 04:37 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by tokyo_james
[B]Surely this is not so much of a coincidence when you consider that the two people infected worked in the same office, and a potential source has been traced to that office.......

And by the way, I would not consider a convertible is much more dangerous than any other car.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 04:55 PM
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Originally posted by johnyboy32
Just a little parinoid, aren't we...
Anthrax is a spore that would get into your car regardless if the top was up or down. If we worry about things like this, fear has been instilled into Americans minds.

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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 05:05 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 2kturkey
[B]You're a nasty piece of business 2x6. I can't believe the depths you will plumb in order to keep pushing your point.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 05:07 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 2kturkey
[B]You're a nasty piece of business 2x6. I can't believe the depths you will plumb in order to keep pushing your point.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 05:09 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by axcilla
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Anthrax is a spore that would get into your car regardless if the top was up or down.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 05:10 PM
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I just heard on NBC that the Anthrax in Florida is synthetic and came from outside Florida. It was found on the dead gentleman's keyboard in his office.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 05:13 PM
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Actually, JohnyBoy, once you're symptomatic with pulminary anthrax, you're as good as dead. Sorry. The first victim was treated after he presented symptoms. He received aggressive therapy and died. The second victim seems to have been found infected before presenting symptoms. God bless him and good luck to him.

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This is my point exactly.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 07:07 PM
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I refuse to live in fear, but I also refuse to ignore the possibilities.

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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 08:57 PM
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I've put 17,000 miles on my S2000 over the past 16 months. I drove with the top up twice, once for 10 minutes, another time for about 20. I'll be driving with my top down unless my neighbors start falling over.

Sort of makes you think about what's important in life. It is a far better thing to drive with your top down than to fly a plane into an office building. Mohamed Atta and his friends were far too serious, and took themselves and their twisted values far too seriously, much more seriously than they deserved to be taken. While getting ground into a minor ecstasy during the lap dances the night before, they should have said, f^ck this, I'm getting an S2000, I'm going to enjoy this life instead of taking so many.

I hope if there is a crop dusting lunatic out there with his bin full of Anthrax he has the epiphany that Mohamed Atta did not, that he abandons his plan of mass murder and chooses life under God's beautiful blue sky.

Driving your S2000 with the top down is important. Thou shall not kill. It is OK to drive with your top down.
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Old Oct 8, 2001 | 09:31 PM
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Originally posted by Pueo


I don't get it....I questioned someone on this very issue a few weeks ago. In case you've missed news reports, America is under attack. It was also determined that the first person (and recently deceased) contracted anthrax from his computer board at work. He worked for a tabloid that has evidently written several scathing reports on the Taliban and Hussen. Easy to sit there and pass judgement from the safe confines of your borders.
I'm not sure what 2kTurkey has read that makes him feel that way about 2x6spds but let me assure you that Australian public opinion is very much behind America right now. When you say "America is under attack" you should realise that the people who did this don't understand national boundaries, only religious and cultural ones. To them we are no different from you. If you are under attack then so are we for sharing your way of life and supporting you. We are far from "safe within the confines" of our borders.
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