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03-03-2022, 11:55 AM
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To vacinate or not to vacinate, that is the question.
A bit of history from the New York Times (The Morning) today:

The original American advocate for inoculation against severe disease was arguably an enslaved man named Onesimus. Before being forcibly brought to Boston, Onesimus seems to have lived in West Africa, where inoculation was a common practice. There, he had been deliberately infected with a small amount of smallpox to make him immune from a more severe version.

In Boston, Onesimus told his owner, Cotton Mather, about the practice. Mather was among the colonies’ most prominent religious leaders in the 1720s. He was also keenly interested in science . . . .

When smallpox began spreading in Boston in the 1720s, Mather campaigned for residents to be inoculated — and was met with fierce criticism and even an attempt to bomb his home. Some Bostonians argued that inoculation violated God’s will. Others, including doctors, argued that it was folklore that would do more harm than good.

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03-05-2022, 08:44 AM
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RE: To vacinate or not to vacinate, that is the question.
As it is said “Nothing new under the sun.”

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03-05-2022, 10:12 AM (This post was last modified: 03-05-2022 10:27 AM by David Lockmiller.)
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RE: To vacinate or not to vacinate, that is the question.
(03-05-2022 08:44 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  As it is said “Nothing new under the sun.”

It was new to the people of Boston . . . at that time. And, Cotton Mather was the Dr. Fauci of his time.

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