To: UKCajun
Vaccinations can easily be handled. It's the panic at even the threat that I'm concerned with. Free Republic was infested with a few hysterical newbie chicken-littles when a couple of dozen people were infected with anthrax, and they spamed every relevant thread creating fear. (And there were a lot of threads.)
If there is even a small ineffectual smallpox attack, a panicky population will drop our economy and our society to a crawl for weeks, maybe longer.
6 posted on
10/09/2002 7:33:33 AM PDT by
elfman2
To: elfman2
If there is even a small ineffectual smallpox attack, a panicky population will drop our economy and our society to a crawl for weeks, maybe longer
The Democrats don't get it. The War on Terror/Iraq IS about the economy. Economic security/prosperity are hand-in-glove with National Security.
9 posted on
10/09/2002 7:38:21 AM PDT by
UKCajun
To: elfman2
To: elfman2
I've been posting in a different thread regarding a creatively timed press statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In the thread I discuss the clinical medical facts and described some of the reasons ring vaccination strategy is an ineffectual response.
The least costly response is to simply allow free market conditions to function. The gov't is WITHHOLDING vaccine from release currently and as a physician, I urge the gov't to complete their bureaucratic machinations and get this vaccine rolling again.
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