2qx

It is scary, even if you're vaccinated. Fear is great for motivating people, but not really great for getting people to act rationally in an emergency. Invoking terror would be part of the objective of the attack, and being clear headed and rational can mitigate the impact.

To think about what would happen in a disease event, you would want to know the Reproductive Number (R), the incubation period, and the fatality rate. I think those are about 6, 14 days and 30% respectively. Herd immunity would occur when around 5 in 6 people were had immunity, then the... (read more)

What most people call smallpox on this topic is three distinct things. There's smallpox the disease. There's the variola virus that causes smallpox. And then there is weaponized smallpox virus.

The virus could mean frozen samples, the 14kb of data or metric tonnes of physical material.

The WHO's DNA sequence is NOT widely available. The sequence is tightly controlled by the WHO and researchers are not allowed to access more than a small percent of the whole sequence, I believe it's 20%. Their copy isn't that important except as potential disinformation vect... (read more)