Maybe get ahead of this one.
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It it helps reassure you, smallpox transmissibility in practice is much lower than you would think, and in endemic conditions, the average infected person will spread smallpox to less than one other person.
Smallpox is most contagious when symptoms are apparent, so if we quarantine those with the telltale rash, it is incredibly effective.
I knew you needed prolonged contact inside to really spread through aerosols/being around a sick person. That one doctor who slept in the same bed as his brother with an active rash and never got the pox himself comes to mind.
Just kind of sucky that we even have to consider this again, lol.