[19th LA Inf]

I got my last smallpox vaccination at the US Customs office (actually a small tarpaper shack) at the old Laredo, TX airport in 1959. I was returning in my own airplane from Monterrey, Mexico, and did not have the yellow card that was required showing vaccination history back in those days. The agent said "roll up your sleeve" and popped me on the spot.

It was free!

[Black Agnes]

Everyone’s making the assumption that a ‘smallpox attack’ would involve the ‘wildtype’ virus that was responsible for pandemics prior to its eradication. That’s the virus all the vaccine stock is geared toward.

Those vaccines would have 0% effectiveness against a weaponized version. In that event the vaccines would be wasteful monetarily and unnecessarily dangerous themselves. Smallpox was a dangerous vaccine. There’s a reason it became ‘optional’ even before it was wiped out globally. Lots of side effects. Especially in kids.

In the event of a weaponized smallpox attack we’d waste billions of dollars vaccinating the population with a useless vaccine. Not to mention all the side effects. AND we’d still lose millions of people to the terror virus.

But it’d be a great reason to establish martial law.

If this is the same Siga vaccine that was discussed last year it hasn’t even been tested thoroughly. Its effectiveness is essentially unknown. But hey, what’s a half a $billion$ between campaign bundlers...