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Pastimes : BRING BACK SMALLPOX VACCINE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (17)	10/2/2000 2:55:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36

I read an article about the modeling of flu epidemics that discussed exactly what you are talking about. Nurses, Paramedics, doctors and nurses would be among the first casualties- hospital resources would be overwhelmed- not even medicines- esp anti viral drugs, not enough respirators, and then of course the citizenry would being to panic as the death toll climbed. There would be insufficient police forces to prevent looting. Fire departments would be short staffed. Food distribution would be interrupted. We can't be sure the water and power companies would have the necessary personnel to operate. It would be a disaster. Now obviously we cannot protect ourselves against viruses - like flus- that are new to the human population. We almost had a jump the year they had to kill all the chickens in Hong Kong. A global health crisis was averted by that step the Hong Kong government took. But smallpox is a known. And the vaccine is known. And we should use it.