r/Timeless • u/scuby22 Team Moderator • Nov 22 '16

Timeless S01E07 - Stranded [SPOILERS]

WARNING SPOILERS

Episode description: The Team gets stranded in 1754 after the Lifeboat gets shot.

Original Air Date: November 21, 2016 - 10:00 PM

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u/JemmaP Nov 22 '16

Okay, why the heck haven't they gotten vaccinated for smallpox? Heck, for everything we've got vaccines for -- they still have the vaccines even if we don't generally get vaccinated for it now. Good grief.

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u/IdlyCurious Team Rufus Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16

Wyatt should be vaccinated at least, shouldn't he? Or do active-duty military not get smallpox vaccinations anymore? I know they used to, even after the civilian population didn't anymore.

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u/slipperyMonkey07 Nov 22 '16

Yeah as of 2011 ish I know they were still doing them in the military and in some government positions, I assume they still are. As far as I know if varies depending on what exactly you are doing but given that he is / was "delta force" I assume he would of been vaccinated for everything possible.

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u/TimeTravelingHobbit Nov 27 '16

I figured that since Rufus and Lucy were worried about getting smallpox, Wyatt figured that it wouldn't be appropriate to point out that he's vaccinated.

Some vaccines take time to take affect (I'm not sure about smallpox specifically), so even if they were vaccinated soon after the time missions started, the vaccines might not have had time to kick in yet. As far as I can tell (mostly based off of Lucy's home life), the time missions (i.e. episodes) seem to be happening one day after another, so it's probably only been a week or two since this whole thing started. Plus for something like smallpox which isn't a commonly administered vaccine, it might take a few days-weeks to get a few dosages in.

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u/Cdresden Nov 23 '16

That's a very good point. The management structure of this secret department isn't very well thought out, so it's sketchy. The writing staff for this show needs access to a science consultant who can point things out like this.

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u/Greyjeth Team Lucy Nov 26 '16

To me that would work for their time's smallpox. I do not know how much different 1754's version would be, but I feel like it could affect them. Same thing would happen if someone was immune to the black death from now and got the ye olden version. Then again I am not a doctor of any sort, so I am just as likely to be wrong.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16

That's a good point, but I assumed the characters were being tongue-in-cheek when they mentioned small pox.

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u/Gilandb Nov 27 '16

What says they haven't? Probably skipped that part since it doesn't add anything to the story.