Smallpox kills healthy people, the flu almost solely kills the weakest members of society. If you survive the flu, everything goes back to normal. If you survive smallpox, you can be left with hideous scarring.
Your point is? My point was that 20,000 died of the flu in this country last year and nobody died of smallpox.Do you think people are going to die of smallpox this upcoming year? Who knows?
What I do know is that 20,000 people will die of the flu this upcoming year and a whole lot of people will die or be disfigured as a result of auto accidents.
I don't waste time being afraid of the bogey man.