*winces*

[kyrielle]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011101/ts/attacks_california_3.html

I hope:
a) not
b) that this is not a distraction whilst they do something else.

Right, anyway, back to programming....

Comments

[kaliteya.livejournal.com]

I think that there are too many media releases causing hysteria, and tho I consider the possibilty of what the article talks about realistic, I think the best way to live life now is by looking at such claims with caution against sensationalism. I know it is hard tho, I find it quite fearsome everytime I put on the telly and they talk about bio-warfare - and Im in Australia, in a way quite far removed from the problem. Even tho, the threat of (more) warfare againt america or even here is real. Driving home at 11pm the other night, there was the thickest smog over the city (Perth - the city doesnt mean just the main business bit, here the city refers to everything that isnt rural). The first thing I thought was bushfire, but what if we had been bombed? A thought like that had never crossed my mind before... Anyway, I hope you don't mind me ranting in your journal. You seem kinda interesting anyway, like me - terrified of dogs! - and i've added you to my friends list. Don't fear the world, and good luck with nanowrimo (which is how I came to discover your journal)Kate.

[kyrielle]

*smiles* Hey, thank you - and I'm always glad to discover new people.

Yeah, I've been ranting about the news media lately, actually. Because it seems to me, sometimes, like they're terrorizing us almost as much as the terrorists, by this stage, how they play everything up.

But the article on the bridges was nice, short, factual, trim...and sounded like it had real meat behind it. (Unlike the anthrax-scare articles. Maybe we will all get anthrax and die, but considering the number of cases and deaths so far, and the tranmission issues, I'm not all that worried about it, even if I should be.... :)

And I have friends in that area. Heh. It's kind of funny, really. My first reaction was terror that one of them might use a bridge, and be on it when something happened.

1. They're already taking precautions.
2. There's more than one bridge, so the odds of being on an affected one if something did happen are lower.
3. ...if it was me, I'd go over the bridge, 'cause driving an extra way or giving up a day or whatever for the maybes can't be done. Too many maybes.

*laughs* So...yeah, I was being a little silly, but hey. I'm vulnerable to the news-hype when tired, I guess?

Hope Nanowrimo goes well for you also! *smiles*