Since there is only so much S-pox Vac, What Guarantee do Citizens Have?

Self ^ | 11/30/2001 | Self

[KansasConservative1]

Everyone is announcing the ordering of "enough vaccine to innoculate every CITIZEN". In this day of "political correctness" and bleeding heart liberal media. I, as a citizen of this country, what to know what Guarantee do citizens have that they would be the first innoculated. Citizens take second tier to noncitizens in many items these days. Many liberals feel that non-citizens have all the constitutional rights of citizens.

What will happen during an epidemic when they are innoculating citizens and surrounding countries, that may not be prepared, start flooding our country demanding "fair treatment". Bottom line, there is only so much to go around, how will they distribute it and how will they confirm citizenship in a timely manner?

You can be sure that if any non-citizen was declined, they would show their suffering all over the news.

Just a question!

[dawn53]

I've heard several times over the past couple days, that innoculation would be done in a "ring" approach. If a case is confirmed, then those that have contact with the victim will be innoculated, and the next "ring" innoculated would be the acquaintances of the original "ring".

In this way they would hope to contain the virus without innoculating the general population.

[Catspaw]

In this way they would hope to contain the virus without innoculating the general population

If this is their theory, giving smallpox vaccine to only citizens within the ring and not to noncitizens within the ring would tend to defeat the purpose of attempting to halt the spread of the disease by vaccinating everyone within the ring It would, of course, tend to kill off most of the unvaccinated noncitizens, but it would also lead to a more widespread contagion area.

Of course, I could be wrong.

[meridia]

Hi there, KC1.

Although the U.S. only has a small amount of smallpox vaccine doses currently, the U.N.'s World Health Organization has many hundred million such does in their stockpile. WHO has officially released a statement that even ONE case of smallpox would be considered by them to be a WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY to which they'd automatically respond.

Also, there is a study from early in the 20th century in which it was shown that a huge percentage of people who were vaccinated in infancy were immune to smallpox, not merely during adulthood - but decades later, during advanced senior years.

Although this is NOT advertised, I've seen several doctors state that it is UNKNOWN if the people vaccinated pre-1970s still have any immunity to smallpox, and if so, HOW MUCH.

I frankly am very embarressed at what passes for information in MOST tv interviews about ANYTHING MEDICAL -- it has been excrutiating watched professional "EXPERTS" tout nonsense or even worse, outright MISTRUTHS....

[meridia]

Say, I haven't read the official document yet, but here is a link to a FR discussion last night which contains the CDC Smallpox Response Plan an perhaps it contains the OFFICIAL answer to your query. As I say, I haven't read it yet, so I'm not certain if it will contain the precise info you want, but I figure it's worth a try, right? LOL! :)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the insight and the heads up!