[goody2shooz]

Contact your Senators and members of Congress immediately if you reject this idea. It is vitally important that we PREVENT terrorism.

Frankly I believe this decision by the CDC stinks!

[Aggie Mama]

Why not give the option of receiving a vaccination if you want to?

[Shermy]

HMOs not wanting to pay the costs?

[Snowy]

Did they give a reason???

[Mixer]

Please!!! A forced vacination? Is that what you really want?

I think every American can decide for themselves if they want a vacination that might possibly kill them. Don't you?

[Atsilvquodi]

One of these days our government and all it's "tentacles" like the CDC, EPA, FBI, etc... will remember that WE THE PEOPLE run the show.

and one day - "We the People" will remember that WE run the show - and stop bending over everytime some new "law" or regulation is put into effect that directly restricts our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I hope.

[pops88]

Considering the bio-engineering done with smallpox to use as a weapon, being vaccinated may not even matter.

[colorado tanker]

This sounds like the same kinda folks who tell us we're safer from a nuclear attack if we have no defense against one.

I'm so happy, however, that the doctor who would sign my death certificate would be vaccinated and safe.

[vannrox]

OK. No Manditory Vaccinations...
But what about voluntary Vaccinations?

[Jhoffa_]

I think it's fine..

After all, the only people who want them are afraid to come out from under the bed to have them administered anyway.

[Jerry_M]

I am willing to pay $100 each for my family to receive a smallpox vacination. I last received one in 1980, courtesy of Uncle Sam, and know that my immunity has since worn off.

My children and grandchildren have no protection, I would willingly pay for all of them, not trusting that this dread disease only survives in two secure research labs.

[Timesink]

Good. I don't want that hideous scar on my arm for something that's almost certainly never going to happen.

[jwh_Denver]

Contact your Senators and members of Congress immediately if you reject this idea.

You really believe that would do any good? Has it ever?

Actually I'm slightly aghast that the government had the power to exercise it and decided against it. Did the drug companies not line their pockets enough?

Are you a communist? I mean you're looking for the government to do what you want for yourself but you don't think about just getting for yourself, you want it for everybody and "we the people" to pay for it.

[whenigettime]

Dear Goody,
To have smallpox vaccinations given enmasse with no option of waiving one is to actually sentence certain persons to a sad death. People who are on multiple medications due to organ transplants, or who have eczema, or who have AIDS (just to name a few populations) are all very much at risk for actually getting smallpox should they receive the vaccine.

America is supposedly the land of the free. I hope and pray we all are given the CHOICE to vaccine or not (be it smallpox or the rest of them) for many many years to come.

[LibWhacker]

Totally predictable. When was the last time a government agency ever put the welfare of ordinary citizens first, particulary since the advent of rampant, hateful leftism into the body politic? Ten to one at least half the people at the CDC are actually against the war on terrorism and blame America for terrorism. Stamp anti-Americanism out of the government and you'll begin to see much better decision making from government.

[Saundra Duffy]

I wanted this for my grandchildren.

[Dales]

Let's see. We can vaccinate every single American, which would probably kill 300 of them and cost millions, to prevent someone using smallpox which there is no indication that terrorists could get even if they wanted. And the terrorists would still be here to find some other means.

Or we could instead try to wipe the terrorists out.

I don't think I come to the same conclusion as you.

[MissAmericanPie]

It is bad news. Wasn't there a thread on FR about five months ago saying that out of a US population of 285 million that 180 million could die in a Small Pox epidemic? I know it was a horrifying amount.

[maestro]

Yesterday, at the doctor's office, I asked for my ten-year vaccination shot for "tetanus" immunization.

I was told, "NO WAY", tetanus shots are ONLY given now at emergency rooms for emergency "cases"!

I was told, "There is an ONGOING WORLDWIDE SHORTAGE of tetanus vaccine!

Sheesh, doesn't anyone "believe" we are at war?

Who WILL "stand-up" for the long range HEALTH of "Citizens".

ENRON?

...............................................BTTT

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[EternalVigilance]

Here's a great piece by Peggy Noonan...I agree with her...all Americans who want the vaccine, should have it, at the earliest possible date. Better safe than sorry.

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/703492/posts?page=1

[SevenDaysInMay]

From various reports I have come to think this is NOT a bad idea. This smallpox vaccine is produced in England by a British firm with recent serious quality control problems. This vac. is not being tested for efficacy, and it cannot be effective against gene spliced smallpox, the Soviet specialty. We are facing the most serious threat since the "Spanish Flu" pandemic at the end of WWI, and this threat is ententional.

We will likely see millions of our children die in the decade ahead of us. If bio/chemical/nuke warefare is unleased, the reckoning of Armageddon must erase the nations sponsoring this war crimes terror.