Falstaff Nation: On Shakespeare, valor, and smallpox - my Tech Central Station column.

UPDATE: As if to prove my point, I got a notice in the mail today from my state health department that was timed to coincide with the CDC's educational mailing on smallpox. This is what the director of my state's health department has to say in the first sentence of his letter:

I,...declare that potential complications of the smallpox vaccination may pose a threat to the health and welfare of the citizens of Ohio.

Granted, there's a qualifying "may" in there, but it's an opening remark that can only be interpreted as discouraging.