Posted on 02/11/2024 1:26:27 PM PST by dynachrome
Soon to be called Disease X.
Freepers need to keep their brains engaged!
This is the opposite of fear porn. Fear porn is the equivalent of “We’re all gonna die!”. This article is suggesting that one should be careful if they are elderly or have compromised immune systems.
In the case of COVID they specifically ignored that a significant number of deaths were people “with” COVID instead of “because of” COVID.
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From what I’ve read, the first confirmed infections were at Fort Riley, KS. I had a great-uncle who died from that.
well... an old vaccine is for old folks...right?
Mrs. L. had a great-great grandfather who died from that.
Correct - one of the interesting reports from the world of medicine prior to COVID-19 was that while it had been believed that the smallpox vaccine conferred lifetime protection, enough people were now living long enough that it became clear that it didn’t. The mean point where a booster would have been required had not yet been determined at the time the COVID-19 panic started.
No, it's because our politicians' paymasters don't live in Alaska.
The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox, was first identified in an adult in Fairbanks, Alaska in 2015. It is most common in small mammals, like voles shrews.
Sometimes it helps to go back to school.
Note this virus is most common in small animals.
And more communism. Lots more communism.
In reality the chickenpox vax has caused the rise of shingles
It was a nasty bug, that’s for sure.
In a time of supposed advancements in medical research, we sure are getting a lot of new viruses we can’t deal with.
There was a ditty that the kids back then used to sing:
“There was a little bird
Whose name was Enza;
I opened up a window
And in flew Enza.”
It’s an election year. Anything can happen. And will...
That is to be expected since the ability to diagnose viral infections is much better than in the old days, news is more widely shared, and people and goods are more frequently moving from place to place, even distant corners of the globe.
We all sad nothing good would come from letting them ‘marry’...
We have run "what if" drills, and in November 2002 all states were required to prepare, within 10 days, an executable plan to deploy smallpox vaccine for the entire state population to be submitted to DOD. That led to THIS.
Being doctors, we wanted to know if there was a credible threat but that question met a brick wall. Many thousands of first responders were vaccinated, we all had to train in how to administer the vaccine by scratcing the skin and raising a blister or blisters.
Anyway, the official word back then was that the only live (frozen) smallpox in the world was in Atlanta and Novosibirsk, but it has since turned up (frozen) in France and Pennsylvania.
It's an ideal bioweapon. We had an agreement with the USSR that if no cases turned up 25 years after the last human case we would mutually destroy our stocks, but 9/11 put a stop to that (you need live smallpox to make the vaccine).
The plans were very detailed, locations were designated, site visits took place, airports for the vaccine to land from national stockpiles were identified and routes to the vaccine centers mapped out.
I still do not know why this happened, or why it happened when it did. Needless to say, I'm much more suspicious about the official version of events now than I was then.
There was a wargame right before 9/11 called Dark Winter, after several variations the minimum US dead were 30 million. I was watching the fire in WTC 1 on TV before work, and when the second plane hit, my first thought was "smallpox" (when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail).
In 1900, there was a smallpox outbreak in London. Mortality among unvaccinated cases was 30%.
For those living then who caught smallpox but who were vaccinated as infants, including those vaccinated in or before 1850, the mortality was 3%.
Anything like “Glacier Dropsy” from the TV series “Northern Exposure?”
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