Nah- Mark had it right - they will just come up with other
(implausible) theories. I roting for the one that says it
was not actually the vaccination of kids that did it but of
homosexual child abusers.

Yes, that is another possibility...

Like everyone else who cannot "prove" a point, you revert to name-calling.

I have no idea who Dr. Mack is.  The paper you cite was written in 1972....

Dr. Mack was invited to present at the ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES
meeting in 2002.  By his own admission, he had been "out of the game" for 40 years. Does that make him less an "expert"?  No.  

A few excerpts from his presentation in 2002:

"I'll try and skip data slides because you've seen many of them already.
This just reiterates the effectiveness of past vaccination, and in this
case it demonstrates that the severity of disease was affected"

"The key to any introduction would be, as has been mentioned,
surveillance.  I think initial recognition would be the most important
single factor.  Identification and follow-up of contacts, obviously.
Isolation of known and probable cases, preventing admission to hospitals
and opening separate facilities, and then vaccination of likely
contacts."

"I would like to think of the fire-fighting as a model for how to deal
with a smallpox outbreak.  People might be prepared in every locality,
and then be gathered together when necessary.  The more public exposure,
the more people are needed, for obvious reasons.  Availability of
protected personnel to me is vastly important, and that would mean field
epidemiologists, lab people and care providers, designated people.  And
I would suggest that older and foreign MD's who were previously
vaccinated ought to be given priority.  Multi-locality Federal
cooperation is really advantageous."

Smallpox disappeared, again, because of aggressive containment and vaccination.

What I take away from this paper is, Dr. Mack believes that any terrorist introduced smallpox outbreak would be small, with fewer deaths than would be expected.  He proposes watching and containing outbreaks, the "fire-fighting" model rather than mass vaccination....wait for the fire, prepare for the fire, but don't institute preventive measures.  

He doesn't mention in his talk the consequences of an infected person leaving the local area and traveling elsewhere (losing containment).  Nor does he discuss genetically engineered smallpox strains...which we know exist.  We have no idea how these strains will act if introduced into a population.  And we can't immunize against them.

Without a pool of vaccinated persons to care for the ill, vaccination of the population in the geographic area of the outbreak, containment will fail.  Why?  because it is extremely difficult to physically contain or restrict movement of people, furthering spread beyond local geographic.

I don't disagree with the "fire-fighting" approach.  It is the same used to control outbreaks in the 1950's and 60's.  

I also agree that  recognition is the single most important factor.  Medical personnel who have never seen smallpox might not recognize it right away.

As for "burn out"....all epidemics eventually end.  At  what cost in lives and disability?

As for being a moron.....you still haven't "proven" vaccine as a cause for autism, diabetes, asthma, etc.  And your expert (Dr.Mack) attests to the effectiveness of vaccination.

Ed