[Joe Hadenuf]

Meanwhile, millions of people are entering this country illegally, routinely, at will, from Lord knows where, to do who knows what.

But hey, does anyone care?

[Free the USA]

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Perhaps a health professional can answer this one for me.

How come we didn't hear scare stories about deaths and maiming from the small pox innoculations we all were required to take it up until the 1970s?

Is this a mutent virus? Because everybody's immunity has been diminished, will new vaccinations hit us harder than the ones we had as children?

[Billthedrill]

Interesting - for a long time now it has been obvious the the administration has had intelligence estimates that somebody had a batch of the virus or we'd never have seen the vaccination programs mentioned, much less ramp up the way they have. What I think the CDC is really preparing for is a blitz campaign on a hotspot, that is, at the first sign of an outbreak flooding the area with vaccine and enough people to administer it. They'd have to plan for multiple, simultaneous instances - this is a model different from a normal geographically-limited disease outbreak but it's what a terrorist might try. At that point people would be considerably less risk-averse (heck, they'd be stampeding to the clinics) and a small, finite casualty rate from the vaccine - you can't get away from that - would be more acceptable than simply vaccinating the entire country against a disease we may never see.