[CathyRyan]

You simply don't let contagious people sit around the general population.

Have you ever been in a big city ER?

[Stefan Stackhouse]

You simply don't let contagious people sit around the general population.

Have you ever been in a big city ER?

TomB apparently thinks that if any kid is infected with smallpox, then the second the rash starts to appear the parent (who of course is a stay-at-home mom, staying by the kid's bedside every second, because everyone knows that only dads need to work) will realize "Oh my, it's smallpox", call the ambulance, and they will don protective gear and rush the kid directly into an isolation ward. Oh, yes, and of course we will have however thousand or millions of isolation units we might need, no upper limit to that capacity.

I sure do wish I could live in TomB's world!

[TomB]

Have you ever been in a big city ER?

Have you ever been in a hospital after a state of emergency has been declared?

Do you REALLY think that once smallpox has been identified, they're going to go about things normally?