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Craig said at 2:02 PM 10-09-2001:
Ads like that do a lot to soothe public worries. |
evan said at 2:07 PM 10-09-2001:
anybody want to develop a line of designer gas masks? we could get rich... |
Craig said at 2:10 PM 10-09-2001:
I'm one step ahead of you. |
Milky said at 2:31 PM 10-09-2001:
I've seen only one picture of it, but during the Cuban Missle Crisis scare, Disney approved a Mickey Mouse gas mask, to make the experience easier on children. It looked like a color Mickey mask with a snout. It was terrific and absolutely horrifying. |
 | kiche [email] said at 8:48 PM 10-11-2001:
those rock!!! they cost a fortune now so you probably can't get your hands on one... |
fronque said at 3:20 PM 10-09-2001:
likelihood of death increases by the hour after initial infection, which may go unnoticed for up to 60 days. |
thomas said at 4:55 PM 10-09-2001:
I like the sound of "gangrene of the spleen." It 's like something someone made up. |
Sweet Beans said at 6:04 PM 10-09-2001:
Thish ish Yvonne's sister. I found this site by accident, when typing Kelloggs.com to see if they gave free samples. You people scare me. I don't think I'll go to college. |
Shweet Beans said at 6:07 PM 10-09-2001:
Oh, yeah, and if anybody knows where Yvonne ish, tell her that her sister needs rides home tomorrow, and wednesday, otherwise I have to stay at my dad's store until 9 and watch rednecks come in to try and "knock" 25 cents off a rooster windchime. |
Shweet Beans said at 6:13 PM 10-09-2001:
Your site ish more interesting than Snood so I'm posting again. Hi. Does anyone else besides me think if the terrorists wanted to kill us all with a biochemical, they'd probably just spray cocaine everywhere? That way, we'd all be addicted and would kill each other to steal another person's stash and we'd be too stoned to get on planes and go to other continents, thus reducing the risk we bring our jollies of cocaine with us. Osama's got nothing on me. |
Jeff said at 8:07 PM 10-11-2001:
You definately sound related to Yvonne. |
talysman [ url ]
said at 6:47 PM 10-09-2001:
hate to break the news to you, but gas masks are, of course, GAS masks... they don't protect against biological weapons.
oh, and gas masks are manufactured to protect against specific kinds of gas. |
Craig said at 6:54 PM 10-09-2001:
So, whoever said that fashion was practical? |
evan said at 3:38 AM 10-10-2001:
ummm, when the biological agent is spread through inhalation, i think it does.... |
talysman [ url ]
said at 11:46 AM 10-10-2001:
well, that would be true, if the filter in the gas mask is designed to filter that biological agent. all a gas mask does is restrict air intake so that it has to pass through a filter. that filter then ... uh, filters. if the filter contains something that deactivates whatever is flowing through it, it does its job. otherwise, it's pointless. |
Milky said at 1:57 PM 10-10-2001:
Sounds like someone needs to go to the library.
BTW-'Gas mask' is a generic term in our language to mean all sorts of breathing filters, because they look similar. |
talysman [ url ]
said at 1:41 PM 10-11-2001:
well, my source was a newspaper interview with a person who sells gas masks, but whatever.
according to the Israel Defense Forces website, a proper gas mask with filter *can* protect against anthrax, as you suggest, as long as you only wear the mask when instructed. however, the Center for Disease Control seems to believe that most bioterrorism attacks aren't detectable ... anthrax deployed with an aerosol spray is odorless and colorless, for instance.
and there's this comment from the December 1996 issue of Scientific American:
"Fortunately, most biological agents have no effect on or through intact skin, so respiratory masks and clothing would provide adequate protection for most people. After a short while, the danger could recede as sunlight and ambient temperatures destroyed the agents. But certain microorganisms can persist indefinitely in an environment. Gruinard Island, off the coast of Scotland, remained infected with anthrax spores for 40 years after biological warfare tests were carried out there in the 1940s. And in 1981 Rex Watson, then head of Britain's Chemical and Biological Defense Establishment, asserted that if Berlin had been bombarded with anthrax bacteria during World War II, the city would still be contaminated."
maybe Scientific American should go to the library, too. OH WAIT! THEY'RE ALREADY THERE! |
evan said at 7:46 PM 10-11-2001:
so im right, right? right. |
talysman [ url ]
said at 1:44 PM 10-11-2001:
to counteract the terror I have instilled, I'd like to mention two other things:
(1) given how much these terrorists hate America and how little they regard innocent lives, if they had bioterrorist weapons or suitcase nukes (the other rumor going around,) they would have used them.
(2) the japanese doomsday cult that flooded a subway with nerve gas back in '95 tried to make weapons-grade anthrax and even ebola cultures, but they failed. and they had just as much money as bin laden. |
evan said at 6:11 PM 10-11-2001:
point number one is kind of faulty. in any battle, timing and strategy are key, and i think the sept 11 attacks proved how organized and structured bin-ladens network is. most likely they would wait until just the right time, launch another highly organized attack which would probably take a lot of planning. it would be naive in my opinion to think we are out of the woods as far as that goes. |
Shweet Beans said at 7:01 PM 10-09-2001:
Do they have gas masks for human gas then? Yvonne's can get pretty stinky after eating some Doritos. |
 | jad [email] said at 7:48 PM 10-09-2001:
hey,
If this shit spreads, it's gonna be a catastrophe. |
brandon said at 8:16 PM 10-09-2001:
And not a state of euphoria. |
jeni said at 5:22 PM 10-10-2001:
anthrax isnt human-to-human communicable. i'd be a lot more worried about smallpox.
i'm old enough to have received a vaccination for smallpox as a child, but in the USA general population vaccinations for smallpox were tapered way back in the late 70s and stopped in 1980. check your shoulder for the scar. |
evan said at 3:40 AM 10-10-2001:
ok, i just heard on TV that a second case of anthrax was reported in florida. does anyone know if this is indeed true? |
brandonA said at 8:51 AM 10-10-2001:
It's a coworker of the first guy. they found traces of spores on him, but I don't think he's contracted it. they think the spores are manufactured,
see here - http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/10/anthrax/index.html |
Brian Bibbly said at 5:13 PM 10-10-2001:
I totally thought Anthrax was done for. I mean after the "Bring the Noize" track with Public Enemy it was all downhill... |
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| kiche [email] said at 8:49 PM 10-11-2001:
no man, they still had a career until "sound of white noise". |
Craig said at 10:43 PM 10-11-2001:
The sound of white noise sucked. Of course they had a totally different singer, that guy from Armored Saint. Consequently, that album sounded like Armored Saint. That was a bad year fro heavy metal. I think it was the last, actually. |
Brandon said at 2:05 AM 10-12-2001:
...yeah that was the year that club M shut down. |
evan said at 4:52 AM 10-14-2001:
holy shit. fucking club maribou was where it was fucking at! rawk. |
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