Re: idiots walk among us

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.

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