[chantal7]

Well, according to the "Dark Winter" project carried out in Oklahoma recently, one infection in OKC could possibly infect people in 25 states and several countries overseas in 13 days.

So smallpox could have infected or touched almost the total population of the United States before anyone came down with the symptoms that usually appear 2 weeks after exposure.

But don't let it scare you. I don't think it'd be that bad.

[riri]

But don't let it scare you. I don't think it'd be that bad.

What scares me is the four or five days the government and gov´t agencies sit on the information deciding whether to tell the public, worrying about the economy.

Don´t even think they won´t do it, you know they will...

[tjh185]

Well, according to the "Dark Winter" project carried out in Oklahoma recently, one infection in OKC could possibly infect people in 25 states and several countries overseas in 13 days. So smallpox could have infected or touched almost the total population of the United States before anyone came down with the symptoms that usually appear 2 weeks after exposure. But don't let it scare you. I don't think it'd be that bad.

Actually, the dark winter scenario assumed an initial exposure of 1000 individuals in OKC, with a dispersion of 20:1 for each case at each wave. There have been some disputes about this ratio, and whether or not that ratio may even be lower than 10:1