For what it's worth, the ratio of Smallpox deaths to population from 1901-1903 is 0.00048. If you gross that up to 330MM people, you get about 159,000 fatalities or about 53,000 annually. However, about 94% of all COVID19 fatalities had more than one comorbidity, meaning about 30,000 of the roughly 500,000 annual COVID19 fatalities were attributable to the virus alone. Thus, COVID19 has about 57% of the lethality as did Smallpox in Boston in 1901-1903.
Covid has a case fatality rate something like 99% lower, and entirely focused on old men.
Get a grip, folks.
“all the inhabitants of this city who have not been successfully vaccinated since January 1, 1897, be vaccinated or revaccinated forthwith.”
So the vax had been “in market” for about 6 years. Folks would have a pretty fair idea of long term consequences, if any.
Excellent article. Thank you.
” the state could not pass laws requiring vaccination.” True. Forcing people to take medicine is unethical. My experience working with psychotic patients who must take medication are treated respectfully and easily persuaded to take medications — if they want to stay in a warm house with good food. Lots of arm twisting needed. Of course, Covid (.5% death rate) is not as dangerous as Smallpox (17% death rate).
“The instructions given to the physicians were as follows: “Vaccinate all who are willing and are not too ill. No force to be used. Make skin clean before vaccinating. Make two scarifications. Make no scarification more than one-fourth inch in diameter. Do not make the blood flow. Rub the lymph well into the wound and secure its drying.”
This stretches the definition of ‘vaccination’.
It is more rightly called ‘inoculation’ and a much weaker way of defending a virus, as well as raising the risk of severe symptoms \from\ the inoculation.