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.
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.