formerly present wrote:
Lead Foil Hat XVI wrote:
Or we could have just [done] what we always do, nothing, and have been done with this over a year ago:
Always "nothing" in response to viral disease, huh? So you're saying George Washington did *not* inoculate his troops against smallpox? Just let the disease run its course, and then was done with it?
Oh, wait: No, that's *not* what happened. During the course of the Revolutionary War, Washington required variolation against smallpox for his troops.
And smallpox disfigured, blinded, and killed (half a billion in the disease's last 100 years) humans for thousands of years--letting it "run its course" didn't eliminate smallpox. Vaccination did.
Oh, we are getting a big carried away here young man, with your juvenile response comparing smallpox to Covid. My guess is, and we would need to ask a doctor if any real ones still exist, but my guess is 99.9% or more of people out there would be much better off catching the Covid virus than Smallpox.
And, of course, Washington was fighting a land war to establish this country and government to protect free people from people like you.
Enough of the dramatics with small pox, TB, polio, blah blah blah.
Get over yourselves, start running consistently, spread that word, and you have virtually nothing to worry about.