Re: idiots walk among us

On 23/04/25 12:15, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vt9ruj$9tn4$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/8/2025 12:56 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

Nobody gets vaccinated against smallpox any more, since the
virus is extinct.  In the wild.  I grimly await some
(long string of weapons-grade expletives) to break that
out of the freezer and inflict it on the world again.

>
My former USMC son got the smallpox vaccination from a Navy Corpsman
before his second trip to Iraq in 2007.  All 1,500+ men in the Marine
Battalion got the smallpox vaccination.

 
Yeah, there was some fear that someone in Iraq may have been
harboring a few vials of v. major in a freezer somewhere.
Not sure that was a reasonable fear, though.  That's on the
list of "non nuclear things you could do that might very well
get you glassed simultaneously by everyone who has nukes" list.
 

My memory is a bit cloudy on this but weren't there serious health
issues for a significant percentage of the US military in Iraq because
of an excess of compulsory vaccinations?