Anonymous ID: a7990d Dec. 11, 2020, 1:38 p.m. No.11985168   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5186 >>5188 >>5208 >>5209 >>5215 >>5223 >>5240 >>5252 >>5272 >>5282 >>5284 >>5347 >>5395 >>5551 >>5660 >>5750 >>5783

Just discovered an interesting parallel in history between DJT and George Washington.

 

  • Washington was fighting the British and smallpox simultaneously

  • Previously had small pox himself

  • Tried quarantine at first, which worked but only for a short period

  • Rumors the British were engaging in biowarfare, deliberately sending sick people to infect the revolutionaries

  • Washington also knew that his American-born soldiers were far more susceptible to the disease than the European enemy. That’s because smallpox was endemic in England.

  • Armed only with a primitive understanding of contagion and immunity, Washington had to decide between several anti-smallpox schemes, each with its own significant risks.

  • The best inoculation technique at Washington’s disposal during the Revolutionary War was a nasty and sometimes fatal method called “variolation.”

  • Variolization still had a case fatality rate of 5 to 10 percent. And even if all went well, inoculated patients still needed a month to recover.

 

"Washington eventually made the bold decision to inoculate all American troops who had never been sickened with smallpox at a time when inoculation was a crude and often deadly process. His gamble paid off. The measure staved off smallpox long enough to win a years-long fight with the British. In the process, Washington pulled off the first massive, state-funded immunization campaign in American history."

From the article https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war