[aristeides]

What is politically unacceptable about the few deaths that would result from mass voluntary vaccination? I understand there is some miniscule risk of a person just vaccinated infecting another person, who just might happen to be one of those with a compromised immune system. But virtually all if not all of the few deaths that would result (one death in a million with the old vaccine) would be of people who had chosen to take the risk. What would be unacceptable about that?

[Movemout]

From a political point of view, any death that resulted from administration of the vaccine would be laid at the doorstep of those politicos who endorsed that policy. If a smallpox attack never materialized then all of those who died, particularly women and children, would be used as a club upon the head of the policy supporters. This is the weak kneed approach to reality that exists today.

[DugwayDuke]

"who just might happen to be one of those with a compromised immune system."

This is the key phrase. Think HIV, think AIDS, think homosexual lobby. If you've been listening, one of the arguments is that an innoculated person might cause a secondary infection in someone not innoculated. Meaning, that if the population is screened, those with a compromised immune system could still be in trouble.