It does help to keep things in perspective. ABC News tonight reported on the government/media frenzy (they do seem to be feeding one another at this point), and offered up this little tidbit.

One person has contracted the deadliest form anthrax and died. This winter in the US, 20,000 will die from the flu.

One need not be a Nobel mathematician to figure out which disease is the more threatening to human health in the US right now. But even so, don't you all think we should just go ahead and insist we nuke the mail? I'm sure it'll save us from Usama Bin Laden and the Taliban.