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| Notti 07/30/21 9:11:56 PM #114: | Notti posted... daynlokki posted... Just some fun stuff for the libertarian freedom warrior patriotz... https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/how-did-george-washington-handle-an-epidemic-55f73a3c1a3e The close quarters of the American camp meant that if smallpox took hold, the results could be disastrous for the Patriot cause. Washington responds Washingtons first reaction was to quarantine the army against the disease. Civilians escaping the city were put on boats and taken to communities well away from the American lines, and anyone showing symptoms was isolated in special smallpox hospitals away from the main army. Any potential contact with smallpox was to be controlled or eliminated. There was even a point where letters delivered to the army were to be dipped in vinegar as a guard against infection. Washington had reason to be cautious. There were rumors that the British were trying to send infected civilians out of Boston in an attempt to spread the disease to the army. It is difficult to determine the veracity of the rumors, but the British had used smallpox as a weapon before against Native Americans during the Seven Years War. The quarantine at Boston was generally effective. The besiegers were largely free of smallpox until they took control of the city from the retreating British in March. Inoculating the army In early 1777, Washington finally ordered the army inoculated against smallpox. Citing the loss in Canada and the recruitment difficulties, the procedures were to be done under the utmost secrecy. While recovering, troops were to be isolated and their clothes cleaned before rejoining the main army. States were urged to inoculate troops before sending them to join the main army. The policy proved successful; few troops died as a result of the procedure and it brought smallpox under control in the Continental Army. Washington would order another round of inoculations while camped at Valley Forge a year later. He succumbed to the temptation that the problem could be evaded, and avoided taking the most effective measures for fear of their risks. It is a period of American history that shows dealing with epidemic disease is as old as America itself. https://dakotafreepress.com/2021/07/10/george-washington-saved-revolution-with-quarantine-inoculation-mandate/ George Washington Saved Revolution with Quarantine, Inoculation Mandate General Washington also required all of his troops to get vaccinated or, in this case, variolated: This was before the advancement of vaccinations. However, there was a procedure known as variolation, an early form of vaccination which involved exposing a cut on the recipients arm to a small dose of the virus, hopefully just enough to trigger immunity without causing severe illness or death. The procedure was illegal in many places including Washingtons home state of Virginia. Washington knew they could not afford to lose more soldiers to smallpox. Thus, despite push back from the Continental Congress, Washington ordered this primitive form of vaccination for the entire army, and by the end of 1777 more than 40,000 soldiers had received it. Infection of the army dropped from 20% to 1% and lawmakers repealed bans against variolation for smallpox across the colonies [Ellsworth, 2021.07.06]. Washingtons smallpox-variolation mandate was the first mass inoculation of a military force. It saved the Revolution. Imagine that: Americas independence depended on a national leader who took an epidemic seriously. President Washington would tell you the same thing President Biden is telling you: Get Your Shots! Finding the Small pox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated. This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust in its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence we should have more to dread from it than from the Sword of the Enemy Comments: John and Abigail Adams poignantly describe in their letters, the dread of smallpox and the revolutionary variolation on themselves and their children. The scene portrayal is here: https://www.classhook.com/resources/1830-john-adams-smallpox-inoculation About 180 years later President (General) Eisenhower mandated national polio vaccinations. Eisenhower threatened to federalize the entire vaccine supply and its distribution. No whimpering. No sniveling. No right-wingnut anti-vax blather. How much further can the republicant party fall? The disease(s) do not respect state boundaries. There MUST be a proactive federal response. https://theconversation.com/the-great-polio-vaccine-mess-and-the-lessons-it-holds-about-federal-coordination-for-todays-covid-19-vaccination-effort-152806 Huh? Smallpox virus that had been around since 10,000 BC was declared eradicated from the face of the earth in 1980 using what was originally an experimental therapy that some hare-brained 18th century Englishman came up with using matter from Sarah Nelms cowpox lesions injected into an 8 year old boy??? Get Marjorie Taylor Greene and her SD avatars on this one ASAP as the unapproved Republican vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc., etc. COVID regimen is under serious attack by the libs. Go go Fascist Founding Fathers! --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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