[samtheman]

So what they're saying is, they're going to wait until thousands succumb to this disease before they vaccinate anyone except a "team of experts"? Well, for one thing, I bet more than just the "experts" are going to get vaccinated, and for another, I'd be willing to pay for a vaccination, as would millions of others. Where's the supply to meet our demand?

[boris]

There basically is no supply. Another thread stated that the U.S. has one dose of vaccine for every 28,000 people. Good luck.

The government has ordered millions of doses from a British company. There presently is no capability in this country to manufacture smallpox vaccine.

If the terrorists blow up the British firm that is making vaccine, be very worried.

The glee of "eradicating" smallpox caused an all-too-typical case of hubris. If we have eradicated it, we don't need to make or use any vaccine anymore, right?...with the result that most of the world's population is now "innocent" of smallpox, meaning that their immune systems have never been exposed in any way. If the virus is released it would cut through the human population like a wildfire. Maybe 1, 2 billion dead.

--Boris

[Jim Noble]

>>Another is that the risks of mass vaccination could outweigh any benefits, particularly if no smallpox case appears<<

This is absurd.

The benefit of mass vaccination is that it takes smallpox off the table for the terrorists.

Americans are going to die in this war-6000+ are dead already.

The notion that any military intervention, like commando raids on the Taliban, or smallpox immunizations of 280 million people, can have a zero risk or zero casualty rate is absurd.

I strongly favor universal smallpox immunization ASAP.

[Dog Gone]

I think the risk is low because it would become a worldwide epidemic.

It's like setting your sister's room on fire. Sounds good until you realize that your room burns up, too.

[Dixie Mom]

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[Carolina]

P I N G ! ) ) )

[2Jedismom]

I have already spoken with my doctor about this. He said he'd vaccinate us as soon as he gets the vaccine. He's all for it.

[illbenice]

We ought to put the CDC on trial for being so ill prepared!

[Jefferson Adams]

But they say smallpox is so deadly that it is important to prepare for any attack.

Right. So why hasn't it been done? People in the know have been warning about this for at least five years.

Oh. I forgot. The globalists and eco-wackos think there are too many people on the earth today. Hmmmm...

[teresat]

From the book "Great Presidential Wit" by Bob Dole:

In the autumn of 1863, beset as always by office seekers, Abraham Lincoln's physician told him that he was suffering from varioloid, a mild form of smallpox. "Is it contagious?" asked the president. "Very contagious," the doctor assured him. Lincoln seemed oddly pleased. The doctor asked why. "There is one good thing about this," the president told him. "Now I have something I can give everybody."

[ChaseR]

"team of experts"?

Yes...some FR members are - right on top of mark :(

[GussiedUp]

Well, for one thing, I bet more than just the "experts" are going to get vaccinated I'll 2nd that bet. I'll bet our "esteemed" leaders in Congress and the Senate and possibily their families will have it - many RICH liberals AND conservatives will get the vaccines and if something happens to the rest of us "unwashed masses" - we're on our own and too bad. Yep you can call me a cynic because I'll bet the vaccines have already started en mass like this too.