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Re: Of Wars, etc.: another dissenting opinion

Posted by wendy b. on October 28, 2001, at 23:42:44

In reply to Re: Of Wars and Rumors of Wars » akc, posted by paxvox on October 27, 2001, at 16:20:43

> I guess it's just that this one, being related to my job as a Postal worker, has hit closer to the bone with me. I guess that it is the general lack of knowledge about what the US Postal Service does, and has done well, for hundreds of years.


What? Who has attributed any of this anthrax stuff to postal workers? I'm confused here... Who has knocked the U.S. Postal Service?? I think you're way off base here, and I don't know why you are taking it as some kind of personal jab... We had a discussion on another thread on the other (meds) Board, where a guy wrote in and asked if his very worrisome (to him) symptoms could be anthrax. Some idiot healthcare worker treating him spouted statistical chances and odds of him having it, and didn't give him the test he asked for, and which was his right. What would it have taken to set this patient's mind at ease, huh? I was one of the people who wrote back and told him to go back and get the test, if that would make him feel like he was doing everything he could to take care of his own health. So Pax has brought the issue over here to PSB for us to mull over some more (a context might have been helpful...)


>Add to this the current situation, and there comes the rub.


I don't understand what you're getting at here at all...

I think AKC's response was wonderful and humane. People, like me, like you, who have lived in fear (anxiety) most of their lives, are feeling vulnerable and unstable. To mock them for their misunderstanding of statistical odds is really not the point... No need to get paranoid, but jesus... Who was looking out for those two (happened to be black) postal workers in D.C. who just up and died from anthrax? Congress closed down and went home, yet the postal station where the mail went through wasn't closed down, they didn't send those workers home... How can you feel so secure? The workers went to the hospital, one man twice, and were sent home. Nobody did anthrax tests on them. Why the hell not? Did anybody even ask them where they worked? Did anybody care? And yet you can be comfortable in assuring everybody that everything will be ok?

The system let them down twice - the federal government for not removing these workers, and the local healthcare system for not covering the proper epidemiological basics, in order to find out if these two people were at risk. But hey, don't worry, your chances are one in 5 billion, or whatever the hell. Tell that to the wives and children of the two postal workers who died.

I agree with AKC, I think these are patronizing attitudes toward people who are dealing with their own, private unknowns. And then add to this the instability of the world around us now. Asking us to "go about our daily lives" because it's good for the economy would be laughable, if it weren't so inane, and self-serving, on the part of the current administration. Having George Bush in the White House right now does nothing to calm >my< fears...

Wendy


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