Terrorism n.: what the news agencies are inflicting on the public as regards the Anthrax threat.

Thousands are clamoring for anthrax vaccines, in such a haste to protect themselves that they’re skipping their flu shots.

• Flu kills 20,000 Americans a year.
  
• The worst Anthrax outbreak (1979) involved over a trillion spores accidentally released into a Soviet population center — 66 died.

My kid can do math well enough to analyze that relative threat.