washingtonpost.com: Limited Smallpox Vaccine Use Eyed

Just for health care workers. The rest of us peons can just cross our fingers... Now, there are a lot of side effects from the vaccine, and the newly inoculated can be infectious. But if smallpox does get used as a terror weapon -- and a lot of experts expect it will -- a lot of people are going to die because of this. Basically (and the story more or less states this) the panel has decided that ordinary people can't make up their own minds about this and it has to be left to the government. What is this, France?