[goody2shooz]

"We're not ready..." Who is ever ready to take on bioterrorism?

[Mulder]

Forced vaccinations is a bad idea. Here's what needs to be done:

1) Secure our borders
2) Eradicate as many of the terrorists as possible
3) Explain to the Muslims that if they attack us with smallpox (or any biological agent), then Mecca will cease to exist.

[SamAdams76]

The government is also negotiating to buy at least 70 million doses recently discovered in a drug company's freezers.

That statement amazes me. "Gee, look what we just found in the back of our freezers...70 million doses of smallpox vaccine." And I thought I was bad. In the back of my freezer, I probably have some hamburger patties from the summer of 1998. And of course there is this package of Oncor's Salisbury Steaks that I've just never gotten around to eating.

As for the smallpox vaccine. I'd take it. And I'd encourage my wife and kids to take it too.

[chance33_98]

This sounds too much like an X-Files episode in some ways. Probably some bio-nano tracking devices implanted or something. What is sad is that we have come to such a point in our history where we can never tell the government's true intention. Yes, I am paranoid :)

Look, we found all these vials of stuff, and there are terrorists running loose - HEY here is an IDEA, Just make it illegal to be a terrorist, that will prevent them from doing it. Ban smoking, all drugs, guns, and terrorists, and we will have nothing to worry about! Yeah, that will work. Everything is going to be all ok. I am going to take a shower and go to bed I think. Before I go off on (another) tangent :)

[John W]

Interestingly,this article does not-unless I missed it-discuss a part of the smallpox equation that was given some time in an NBC Nightly News piece a few days ago-the difficulty of mandatory quarantining(sp?) of Americans if/when this attack occurs.

[Thud]

This is a major policy change and its probable motivation is scary.

[Buckeroo]

I love it when government weighs my possible death with some silly statistic.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

But the announcement represents a significant shift.

It surely does and not any time too soon!!!!!!!!!!! The goobermint plan to vaccine AND quarantine only after there's been an outbreak, I.e. DEATHS, is outrageous.

[celtic gal]

I never realized the vaccines were so dangerous. I had the smallpox vaccine when I was a little kid. Then at least three more times, once as a teenager and then again in the military.. the last one didn't " take". All I ever got out of it was a scab and a little scar.

[My Identity]

the United States isn't alone. The Russian Health Ministry said Tuesday it was also considering resuming vaccinations against smallpox.

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?????
Isn't small pox confined to 2 labs (in the US and Russia)?
Assuming our supply is reasonably well contained,
what has Putin told Bush about Russia's supply?
Why is small pox getting so much press??
Stuff like this can make you paranoid.

there, i feel slightly better... ;-)

[FITZ]

Many more people with compromised immune systems such as AIDS patients would also die if they received the vaccine.

Some would ---they'd die if small pox hits too. Taking the vaccine should be voluntary anyhow ---AIDS patients shouldn't take it. They're still better off if most other people are immune to smallpox because then the chances of that spreading quickly through the population is drastically lessened.

[happygrl]

Read this article; "The Demon in the Freezer" Then decide if you would be vaccinated.

http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm

[Arkinsaw]

This is fairly worrisome as it is doubtful that the government would contemplate vaccinating the entire population unless there was a fairly reasonable chance of it being necessary. I sense that we are mushrooms. <

[American in Israel]

Israel last month came up with a new form of the vaccine that does not have serious side effects. Preliminary testing shows that it is more effective than the old vaccine too. This move by our government shows that they are worried, and do not have time to wait for the new stuff to be manufactured.

[Savage Beast]

“government officials have been seeking to secure a civilian stockpile of 286 million doses -- enough to vaccinate the entire U.S. population in the event of an outbreak. ”

“The death rate for smallpox vaccination in healthy adults is about one per million ”

“this is fewer than the number of Americans killed in car wrecks every two days. And it is far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of people who would likely die if an outbreak occurred in America and the population wasn't immunized. ”

This situation could have been and should have been anticipated.

The best minds do not go into medicine.

This is yet one more casualty of the insane, reckless, and self-serving attack on the medical profession by the legal profession. On the surface, it appears harmless enough, maybe even beneficial. But it is very destructive.

Eliminate the threat of catastrophic litigation; stop shunting the best minds into other fields; and they will once again suffuse health care.

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The death rate for smallpox vaccination in healthy adults is about one per million, meaning an estimated 180 people would die if all American adults were vaccinated.

Say no to vaccinations.

[KineticKitty]

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Did anyone consider the cost of the necessary 300,000 lollipops in assorted flavors? Fiscal responsibility is in order here.....

[Jethro Tull]

This is a KOOK post.

What's next? Food storage and survival equipment for the family?

I say BS to that.

The government will take care of me and my family.

[Saundra Duffy]

I want my grandchildren to be vaccinated ASAP!!