if the public doesn't calm down and start to rationalize, then the terrorists win.
expect to get a post card similar to this is the next few weeks from our grateful USPS
http://www.usps.com/news/2001/press/...19postcard.htm
and watch the fear factor increase 4 fold.
remember that the worst anthrax case in history only killed 66 people (russia late 70's). and that was due to a secret biological chemistry plant leaking the substance right over a small town.
and as Bill Maher put it: "Their main source of medication is Vodka." So it can't be that bad.