Happy-go-lucky, madcap jokester Tom Ridge must have a crony in the air filter business. This week, it appears that duct tape and plastic are out, and expensive air filters are in.
Apparently the actual effectiveness of Ridge's countermeasures aren't considered before he vomits this retarded advice upon the populace. Somebody please save us from these buffoons.
``I'm certain there's been no good research to indicate'' that HEPA filters could be effective against biochemical agents, said Greg Evans, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections at the St. Louis University School of Public Health. ``That just makes no sense.''