Essay: Arguing about vaccine mandates has been an American tradition since George Washington inoculated his soldiers against smallpox, writes historian David Oshinsky
President Biden unveiled a six-pronged strategy to combat the Delta variant of Covid-19 that ramps up vaccine requirements for employers with 100 or more workers, those in the medical field and federal workers. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesIn February 1991, five Philadelphia children died from a disease thought to be almost extinct.
In Philadelphia that winter, the great bulk of serious cases came from a single source—a church that rejected “all means of healing apart from God’s way.” The members took no medicines, owned no thermometers, saw no doctors. Rejecting birth control, they raised large families in close quarters. “It was like entering a time warp,” a witness reported. “The parents are extremely courteous, caring and honest.
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