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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: idiots walk among us
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 21:59:01 -0700
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On 5/3/25 20:04, Titus G wrote:
> 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?


With the use of depleted uranium in various warheads the health
complications whould not ber blamed on vaccines but the Middle East is
home to multitudes of infectious diseases.  Vaccines generally 
strengthen the immune system but if there are no vaccines for specific
diseases then any weakening of the immune system will allow advantagous
infections to occur.

	bliss