• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    People thought the COVID 19 vaccine was bad, the smallpox one makes it look like nothing in comparison in terms of side effects. Even something like eczema prevents you from getting it. That's 20% of children and 3% of adults that won't be able to get such a vaccine. And, like I said, a mass vaccination campaign of 300 million vaccinated will kill around 4000 people in the US. Still much better than the death rate of a monkeypox outbreak of that size, that would kill between 9 and 18 million people.

    There's also a very effective smallpox antiviral, but it's not being produced widely at the moment.