At the time our Founding Fathers lived, people believed diseases like #COVID19 were due to miasmas and that the treatment for many diseases involved toxic metals and bloodletting; so I'm not sure how relevant they would have done in a pandemic is to 2020.
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In fact, the fact that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox, which would rather go against
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I am reminded too that George Washington submitted to medical treatment involving blood letting,so I would say it is a safe bet he would have been OK with a flu shot!
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Can you imagine the signers of the Declaration of Independence submitting to any of these things?!