[tellw]

Click link for the full Op-Ed. This is a huge win for the cause of individual liberty and self-defense since the CDC and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice has opposed allowing ordinary Americans to get the vaccine.

[HalfIrish]

Let us get the shots now before the governonrs can turn their states into little gulags? You're not a team player, are you?

[afraidfortherepublic]

This is a huge win for the cause of individual liberty and self-defense since the CDC and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice has opposed allowing ordinary Americans to get the vaccine.

I dunno. My personal physician (whom I trust implicitly) has warned that we could be in for some very nasty side effects if we are forced to take smallpox vaccine again. Of course everyone in my fmily has already had it years ago, but there are the grandchildren to consider.

[AdamSelene235]

The Bioweaponeers

[krodriguesdc]

Senator Frist can have my shot - I don't want it!

[bonesmccoy]

I'm pleased to hear Dr. Frist join this fight with his op/ed. It's about time and it's about our lives. DOCTOR Frist should remember he's a doctor first and was a senator SECOND.

[backhoe]

There are links to quite a lot of smallpox information among these:

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

[KarlInOhio]

The question I have about smallpox is will any smallpox used against us by an enemy be the "wild" strain which older people have been vaccinated against, or will it be a genetically engineered version for which there is no vaccine available. Maybe our new friends the Russians will be able to tell us what they whipped up in their biowarfare labs. It is quite possible that any smallpox vaccine we have in stock now would be completely worthless.

[aristeides]

Indexing.

[willyone]

The only reason that the vaccine is being opposed is because of the HIV status, known or unknown of many out there. Chalk up another win at our expense for pandering to the gay lobby. Must protect that one percent who give twenty percent of campaign donations. If your kids and you die needlessly that is just the way it is.

[Paleo Conservative]

I clicked the link but got an article from Jane's about US human intelligence failures instead of the New York Times op-ed by Senator Frist. I have linked to the correct New York Times article below.

WASHINGTON — Should Americans be allowed to make an informed choice to receive the smallpox vaccine? I believe they should and that individual choice should become the central component of a new national policy aimed at protecting us from the possible use of smallpox as a weapon of mass destruction by terrorists.

[whenigettime]

sarcasm on/ Great, now all Americans will have equal access to actually exposing themselves to smallpox /sarcasm off.

If you take a look at the information available regarding the potential for a smallpox biowarfare scenario, you will find it to NOT be the bug of choice for terrorists. It's really not all that scary. What IS scary is the threat of nationwide, mandatory smallpox vaccination.