[Exigence]

If you want to withhold a life-saving vaccine from your family, be my guest.

You missed the point of my question, avoided answering it, and used it to grandstand. How dare you suggest that I would want anything but the best for my family? How dare you!

The point still remains that we do not yet have an outbreak, the vaccine can be given *after* one starts and still prevent the disease, and some children will die from the vaccine.

I'm having my doubts that any thoughtful physician would respond to a sincere question as you have.

[rainingred]

I can't find anywhere in this thread where he said he was a Medical Doctor. Although bonesmccoy has certainly implied it.

[bonesmccoy]

What is your point? I attempted to address your question. Perhaps you should restate your question in clearer terms. Do you have a question? Or are you just attempting to belittle?

[Don Joe]

"You missed the point of my question, avoided answering it, and used it to grandstand. How dare you suggest that I would want anything but the best for my family? How dare you!"

He's arrogant, that's why he does what he does. The first day he showed up on FR, he puked out a mile of BS about how it was stupid and paranoid to begin antibiotic treatment of inhalation anthrax before the symptoms appeared. If he was a real doctor, he should have known -- as virtually everyone else knows -- that if you wait until symptoms appear, you have effectively sentenced yourself to death.

I haven't quite figured the guy out, but I do think it boils down to a question of either knowledge, or motives.