[boomboomsubban]

Being the center of political and military power means a lot of people have to constantly worry that their political and geopolitical enemies are trying to get one over on them. I'm not saying they're like Dale Gribble, but a certain part of them is professionally paranoid.

[raman325]

Sure. While there is a higher concentration of those type of people in DC than elsewhere, that is not the same thing as the DC population.

[boomboomsubban]

We disagree on what constitutes a "significant portion of the population" means then. Even at 1% of the population fitting that description would be ~50,000 people, meaning 3 of them with weird symptoms would not be surprising.