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November 8, 2021 / Posted in  anti-vaxxers, Blog, CDC, coronavirus, coronavirus in USA, COVID spreader, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Edward Jenner (founder of vaccinology), Fox News, GOP, immunization (history), Iowa, Misinformation, Republican Party, Research, Trump denial of coronavirus, Trump Donald J, Tucker Carlson, U.S. military, vaccination, Vaccines, virologist, World Health Organization (WHO)

The practice of immunization dates back hundreds of years.

1. Buddhist monks drank snake venom to confer immunity to snake bite and variolation (smearing of a skin tear with cowpox to confer immunity to smallpox) was practiced in 17th century China.
2. Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox.
3. In 1798, the first smallpox vaccine was developed.
4.  the right of government to impose vaccines was established by the Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. In a 7-to-2 ruling, the Court said Cambridge, Massachusetts could require all adults to be vaccinated against smallpox.

Immunization record of First Lieutenant Herman J. Grabenstein, Jr...

October 2, 2021 / Posted in  Albert Gitchell, anti-maskers, Asa Griggs Candler, Blog, Christian Scientists, Christian Terrorists, Coca-Cola Company, coronavirus, COVID spreader, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, David Priest, Donald Trump, Eleanor Roosevelt, Evangelical Christianity, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, genocide, George Washington, James Rolph, Macfarlane Burnet epidemiologist, mandatory vaccination, racism, rosary, Sam Liccardo mayor, smallpox, Vaccines, virologist, Wilmer Krusen, Wilson Smith, World War I doughboys

In a country that prioritizes individual freedom as much as the U.S. does, citizens do not have the right to harm their colleagues or their colleagues’ families, friends and communities. One person’s right to a healthy life is greater than another person’s right to a specific job. The government (state and federal) has been requiring vaccinations of all people even before the nation existed–and their have been violent protests against government action to save all the people by those who claim they riot and protest in the name of freeDUMB.

In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.¹ In the decades that followed, immunization treatments became safer (the Revolutionary War method killed ...