[Gimlet]

Do I sense some wishful thinking? Hey...a smallpox epidemic would be a terrible thing and unfortunately we have not invested in public health systems to help deal and contain it.Living off the grid in a remote area may help...for a while. But it can get you too. Best to take it on the chin as a nation and try to deal with it head on. You say you will want revenge...who will deliver it to whom and with whose resouces?

[monkeywrench]

"You say you will want revenge...who will deliver it to whom and with whose resouces?"' Haven't you heard, ttthe American tax payer has a bottomless purse? They may decide they actually want to be the ones to benefit from it for once. Revenge? Gratification is more like it! Why not? We've been accused of it from every third word hell hole, anyway.

[monkeywrench]

"Do I sense some wishful thinking" and furthermore, you haven't been here long enough to sense much of anything about anybody!