Discussion on Smallpox Vaccine Risks

Since smallpox, as effective a vaccine as it

is, has some

rare but nonetheless potentially very serious

toxic side effects. If you're immunosuppressed, it could be

deadly. Uh, if you're one of those people who have

the, the

strange myocarditis associated with it.

So even though we accepted the toxicities of the

smallpox vaccine

back then, it was because there was active

smallpox out there. So then we decided that we would

not globally vaccinate the entire country.

And by the way, the country would not have accepted being

vaccinated.

So we knew that.

I mean, it was sort of like a fail-safe. And I said, "Mr.

Vice President, by the way, even when you're offering it to the first

responders, many of them didn't wanna take." So this

idea

about kind of saying everybody should take it, m- it didn't make any sense