THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER (Graphic description of Smallpox)

The New Yorker, July 12, 1999 pp. 44-61 | July 12, 1999 | RICHARD PRESTON

[Lazamataz]

Bump

[Lazamataz]

Apparantly this article is too horrific to comment on....

[Michael Barnes]

So where's the graphic?

[Lazamataz]

So where's the graphic?

You asked for it.

[Centurion2000]

Lovely stuff .... remind everyone to start advocating complete nuclear eradication for ANYONE that unleashes this stuff again.

[Michael Barnes]

Seen it before (not this exact pic)..now, let the readers see what the words represent.

[FITZ]

It's horrific. I wish the vaccinia vaccine would be made available to those who want it now. I'd just as soon not have to worry at all about smallpox.

[D-fendr]

you have to be kidding.

if not read the article again.

[The Drowning Witch]

I'm appalled beyond words.....

[The Drowning Witch]

ping

[The Drowning Witch]

How dare you????? Did you not read the article??? What's wrong with you???

[Thumper1960]

Are you insane?

[Demidog]

The article is full of bogosities. First of all, the WHO is not telling the truth when they say small pox has been "erradicated."

Do a search on Monkey pox and see if you can tell the difference. Scientists cannot. It's out there. Labelled as such for the obvious embarrasment that would ensue were they to have to admit that no such erradication ever took place.

Secondly the vaccine could not have possibly erradicated the disease as not even 10% of the worlds population received the vaccine.

And finally, the mortality rates for small pox are greatly exaggerated. This article is meant to panic.

[Demidog]

The vaccine doesn't work. Playing with such fire is bound to get you burned. In the late 1800's Japan suffered many outbreaks in a population that had been vaccinated 100%.

Once they stopped vaccinating the outbreaks also stopped.

I'm amazed that you would support genocide though. Not many people are brave enough to come right out and say it.

[D-fendr]

First, in practical matters, you would kill millions of innocents including a large number of your own "tribe."

Second, morality is not irrelevant. If it were, then you would have no greater justification for killing other nation's citizens than that for killing your own.

You are looking down a path that even wise men have tried. At the end of it, wiser, they turned to better ways to be a force for good and the enemy of evil.

[Demidog]

Saying that people have done it throughout time is not justification for such behavior.

You are stating the obvious. The other obvious historical fact is that those who live by the sword also die by the sword.

Your "plan" will fail miserably because there is no vaccine that would protect your folks. Not to mention the fact that your plan is horribly immoral. I don't doubt that there are some who could manage to whip up some "patriots" into a frenzy to support such an idea. In fact I have seen alot of that at FR lately though not with this flair for detail and so articulately expressed. I congratulate you. You are an apperently intelligent fellow who advocates the mass murder of people who have not harmed any U.S. citizen.