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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Replying to @gorskon
And also, in 1777 George Washington had his troops vaccinated for the smallpox. https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html …
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Replying to @SethCotlar
As I noted in a subsequent Tweet.
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Can you imagine the signers of the Declaration of Independence submitting to any of these things?!