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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!

You are assuming that nobody is going to know that smallpox has been spread. This is a silly assertion. As I have pointed out over and over and over, there will be a day or two of infections from the initial group of victims. However, once that occurs, every time a person gets the symptoms, it will be assumed to be smallpox. The statement:

The realitiy is that some poor kids need a lot more wrong with them than just a fever, a cough, and a rash before they are taken in for medical care.

is ridiculous, because once it is announced that smallpox is occurring in a given area, anytime a person gets sick they will assume is the diesase, as anyone paying attention to what is going on with anthrax right now can plainly see. You also continue to ignore the fact that the disease is not contagious for 2-3 days after the person gets sick.