Five letters were mailed in total - four to Washington state, one to Fulton County in Georgia - Mr Raffensperger said.
The letters to Washington have been intercepted and some tested positive for fentanyl, he said.
Five letters were mailed in total - four to Washington state, one to Fulton County in Georgia - Mr Raffensperger said.
The letters to Washington have been intercepted and some tested positive for fentanyl, he said.
That’s plausible, IIRC the Russians used aerosolized fentanyl (or something closely related) when they killed the terrorists and pretty much everyone else* at the Bolshoi Theatre. I think you’d need a fairly substantial (I mean, relative to fentanyl) amount to go airborne in order to have a dangerous effect, though, and most people don’t explode envelopes open. Like, you’d probably have to get visible dust in the air at a minimum is what I’d guess, and I don’t think that was a realistic possibility here.
*I’m being hyperbolic, but let’s leave it at refusing to tell doctors what they’d used or what the antidote (Narcan) would be was wildly reckless and got a lot of folks pointlessly killed.
I don’t think the envelopes are exploding but when you open envelopes, sometimes things go airborne when you pull stuff out. It can happen with bags too, like flour just loves to go everywhere naturally. I wasn’t sure if airborne particles would harm someone if the air from moving the envelope made it go airborne.
It’s a valid question, but I don’t think that enough would go airborne to be dangerous under normal circumstances.
Thanks for taking the question seriously, I don’t know anything about these kind of drugs and what they’re capable of.