Vaxxine Rebellion

[Egbert]

The smallpox vaccine wasn't invented till 1796, so what was GW giving his men?

Horse dewormer?

[EPW]

The smallpox vaccine wasn't invented till 1796, so what was GW giving his men?

[BeBMan]

George Washington's military genius is undisputed. Yet American independence must be partially attributed to a strategy for which history has given the infamous general little credit: his controversial medical actions. Traditionally, the Battle of Saratoga is credited with tipping the revolutionary scales. Yet the health of the Continental regulars involved in battle was a product of the ambitious initiative Washington began earlier that year at Morristown, close on the heels of the victorious Battle of Princeton. Among the Continental regulars in the American Revolution, 90 percent of deaths were caused by disease, and Variola the small pox virus was the most vicious of them all. (Gabriel and Metz 1992, 107)

On the 6th of January 1777, George Washington wrote to Dr. William Shippen Jr., ordering him to inoculate all of the forces that came through Philadelphia. He explained that: "Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army . . . we should have more to dread from it, than from the Sword of the Enemy." The urgency was real. Troops were scarce and encampments had turned into nomadic hospitals of festering disease, deterring further recruitment. Both Benedict Arnold and Benjamin Franklin, after surveying the havoc wreaked by Variola in the Canadian campaign, expressed fears that the virus would be the army's ultimate downfall. (Fenn 2001, 69)

(...left out by the deep state so that ppl have to read in full from the linked page...)

Variola raged throughout the war, devastating the Native American population and slaves who had chosen to fight for the British in exchange for freedom. Yet the isolated infections that sprung up among Continental regulars during the southern campaign failed to incapacitate a single regiment. With few surgeons, fewer medical supplies, and no experience, Washington conducted the first mass inoculation of an army at the height of a war that immeasurably transformed the international system. Defeating the British was impressive, but simultaneously taking on Variola was a risky stroke of genius.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&sm...oculation.html

[Kidlicious]

In Ming's mind he is stopping suicide bombers because he saw that on TV, but most of the people are just people that are afraid.

[Kidlicious]

Blah blah blah... some simple FACTS.
The majority of people
getting Covid are NOT vaccinated.
People who are not vaccinated are FAR MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM COVID
Most of the people in Hospital ICU's with COVID are NOT vaccinated.
People who are NOT vaccinated are far more likely to transmit Covid to others.

This is not "government"... this is REALITY.

None of that is relevant if even true, and I don't know. You got that from CNN or something so I don't know if it's true or not. It doesn't matter. You just think you have the right to use the government to force your beliefs onto people and violently inject them with your junk.

[Ming]

Blah blah blah... some simple FACTS.
The majority of people
getting Covid are NOT vaccinated.
People who are not vaccinated are FAR MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM COVID
Most of the people in Hospital ICU's with COVID are NOT vaccinated.
People who are NOT vaccinated are far more likely to transmit Covid to others.

This is not "government"... this is REALITY.

[Kidlicious]

People have a right to be stupid and wrong too. If you maintain that people don't have the right to be stupid and make stupid decisions then we are going to have to make a lot of laws to force Democrats to stop being stupid and believing stupid things.

[Kidlicious]

Yeah... Your Freedom to put everybody else at risk because you would rather take horse medicine... morons.
It's funny how most people don't have problems with other vaccines, but thanks to idiots in the Repug party, now the covid vaccine is all about freedom
This isn't about "freedom" it's about ignoring science and doing things that are MORE likely to make you die.
Maybe Tucker should come out and say that Arsenic cures Covid... god knows that trumpettes would probably believe him.

When you say science, I hear "government" and that's what you are really talking about. People don't have to believe in either science or the government. It's really sick to force your will on them to do so.

[Ming]

This thread is not about the vaxxines. It's about our freedom. There is already a vaxxine thread.

Yeah... Your Freedom to put everybody else at risk because you would rather take horse medicine... morons.
It's funny how most people don't have problems with other vaccines, but thanks to idiots in the Repug party, now the covid vaccine is all about freedom
This isn't about "freedom" it's about ignoring science and doing things that are MORE likely to make you die.
Maybe Tucker should come out and say that Arsenic cures Covid... god knows that trumpettes would probably believe him.

[Kidlicious]

I'm free to do whatever the government says I can do. To Democrats that's what freedom is.

[EPW]

You're still free not to get a vaccine.

[Kidlicious]

We can't tell.

[Kidlicious]

This thread is not about the vaxxines. It's about our freedom. There is already a vaxxine thread.

[Ming]

Why do stupid Trumpettes think horse medicine is better for you than a FDA approved vaccine...
Oh, that's right, they believe all the alt right BS propaganda.

[Broken_Erika]

We prefer that cures don't cause brain damage.