What, the Fat Boyz Inc be less than fully honest and forthcoming?

I wish I commented that I thought it might be hysteria when I first read about it. Short of some crazy nerve agent, what kind of solid powder would cause both "feeling sick" and burning? Panic attacks can cause nausea and numbness/fuzzy feelings on the face and extremities. I think it's just nocebo.

Six people all going psychosomatic at once? Nuh-uh.

I've seen this phenomenon many times over. People are so ultra-paranoid that any little thing will trigger "air quality issues." After professional intensive air monitoring shows nothing at all, they all of a sudden become silent.

Adrenalin surges often cause nausea. And, group hysteria and other psychological phenomena involving suggestivity and other behaviors are well-known, documented & widely accepted scientifically. Fear factor over ricin or anthrax is understandable. Sound like the prankster mailer got extra mileage out of their stunt. Maybe a Bush II-Obama Afgan-Iraq War vet who's not being cared for properly. Maybe just some jerk. I doubt that there's a cover-up on that one.

Please don't feed the civil rights/freedom-eating machine of the Cheneyites. Bad enough those spineless, gutless Democrats voted for that anti-American "Patriot Act" & then re-authorized it. Talk about sickness....

Well, it's happened before. You might imagine there were probably only one or two people that did a particularly effective job selling it. The symptoms were so vague and varied!

Google 'placebo effect'

I screwed up that link. Was just linking to a Wikipedia article.

I've been installing flooring for 20 years and I can't tell you how many times people start complaining about the smell And getting headaches (especially teachers and nurses) before I even open up a glue bucket.

Well, those odors could be emanating from your work shoes, clothes, tools, etc. In my experience, workers who regularly handle volitile organics and aerosols like those have compromised senses of smell. It's tough line of honest work, of course, Jason.

Speaking of nurses, if you know one, ask him or her how many of their coworkers have determined they're allergic to latex. Might not know these days as everyone uses non-latex gloves anymore, but if you get a number it will be way too many. I think when you live around so much sickness and constantly need to be showing precaution you ratchet this stuff up significantly.

The official line surely gets set straight eventually, it repeatedly is, as often retold:
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot - Are there so few actual Terrorists that the FBI has to recruit them into manufactured attacks?, By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, Thursday, Sep 29, 2011.

Stay tuned for on-going updates:
salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

Multiple people passed out at my husband's workplace after a mysterious substance was spilled on the floor. Hazmat teams were called out.

It was Snapple.

Ha! So when Rush Limbaugh used to say that Snapple was made from the best stuff on earth, he wasn't kidding!

When I was still a painter we would regularly get people in commercial spaces complaining about the paint smell making them sick...
when we were using latex paint....

In the 90s I-5 southbound was closed from Longview to Vancouver for hours for what was found to be 3000 gallons of Grade A Milk. But hey, I have lactose intolerance and I was saved.

There were ads on TV just a few days ago for a special report on the anthrax attacks of ten years ago. Hysteria?

Tankfixer, latex paint doesn't make me sick but it will give me a headache unless the space is very well ventilated. But then I've found it's all about what you are used to. Cigarette smoke used to give me headache as a kid, after a stint in the Navy where almost everyone smoked it no longer does.

I smell a tort attorney in the future.

Tenskwatawa ("The Prophet") has it exactly right.

The FBI and CIA are behind this, as they have been responsible for the underwear bomber, 9/11, the latest Kennedy Assassination (bet you didn't know Ted was really murdered), Lars Larson, the outcomes of at least five Super Bowls (that we know of), KISN radio's format change, New Coke, Chaz Bono's surgery, 90-day same-as-cash financing, the demise of professional Roller Derby, my fifth ex-wife's Nordstrom shopping sprees, and the fact that all literature is a footnote to "The Inferno."

They also broke into my house and replaced everything with an exact duplicate, thinking I would never notice, and then made it look like nothing had happened.

You see no evidence of conspiracies? That's exactly what they want you to think....

and there is a falsifable test for my wannabe 'scientific' theory:

ABOLISH the CIA. ABOLISH the FBI.

Then see if the crimes against democracy and war of terrification stops.

It's like holding a serial-crimes suspect in a cell for a while, crimes with began when and never occurred before the suspect came to town (the CIA invented weaponized anthrax) at the outset, and then watching to see if the same-m.o. crimes stop. But The Other Jimbo is unlikely to support a test of facts while ad hominem smears and confined mentality is the only liveliness there is born and buried in Bubbleville.