[joathome]

"Influenza can spread so easily because we congregate, we go to work sick, we don't treat it very seriously."

True. And just picture all those folks going to work who already have the "flu" symptoms of smallpox. Some of them will just be becoming contageous. :(

[ChemistCat]

I'm noticing something scary here. Everyone who is arguing that smallpox isn't a threat, that we're stupid to be even discussing the subject, is arguing without basis in fact. They're making assumptions about the quantity of vaccine available, for instance, that simply are not borne out by data provided by the government. I would sure like it if those who dismiss the threat could use reason to dismiss it. None of them are--they are chiefly using ridicule.