Here’s a thought

Ramblings / December 6, 2002 / John / 0

I’ve just read in the news that the UK goverment is stockpiling enough smallpox vaccinations to immunise the entire population of the UK in the event of a terrorist threat.

People aren’t routinely vaccinated against smallpox anymore because it was wiped out several decades ago.

So where do the terrorists get it from?

Is it available because, while our nice benevolent goverments were busily wiping out the disease in the interests of the health of their good taxpaying citizens, they were also quarantining and keeping some of the virus aside for a rainy day? Really, how sick is that?

Sheesh.

John

UNIX geek, wannabe cook, musician, book-lover, and all round good-guy.