Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

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There's nothing new under the sun. George Washington mandated smallpox vaccinations and Abigail Adams would allow no one on her property nor in her employ that weren't as well. Children were requires vaccines as well to attend public school during the last 60 or so years.This whole damned thing should be behind us at this juncture.

My husband said Yes General Washington did have the Continental Army Vaccinated. 
I did not know this (being Chinese) so I looked it up.

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.
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