Mike Luckovich for July 31, 2021

Benedict Donald?

Mandatory inoculations ordered by George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

The first mandatory quarantine in the U.S. under the Constitution was under George Washington, near the end of his first term, during an epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia.

There have been many mandatory inoculations, quarantines and vaccinations throughout the history of the United States and they have been declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

People have a liberty right to make choices about their own lives. They do not have the right to make choices that endanger others, put others at risk or create a general public health risk.

For my part, I do not prefer mandatory vaccinations.

But those who are eligible for vaccination and make a deliberate choice not to get the shot should face mandatory quarantine — 100% home confinement with no exception including for errands.

Up until oh… um, maybe the late 60s or early 70s, people mostly had some real world experience, or knew someone who did, maybe a grandparent. In the US (for sure) lots of people no have no “familial memory” of actually dealing with “work or don’t eat”… or “get it right or it may kill you” or the like. How many of you have actually built a house? Ridden a horse? Raised veggies or meat for your table, or your neighbors’? How many times have you ever done something that ACTUALLY MATTERED? Something that there was no backing out of and if it didn’t work, you would suffer?

So if you’ve never had that experience, how can you make a good decision about, say, vaccinations… when you are surrounded by misinformation, good information, pictures of kittens… and busy?

Do you mean that ordering inoculations is “originalist”?

I remember, no shot, no public school. What happened to that? How about no shot, no public air?

History can be so damned inconvenient

Before deploying to Iraq, we got inoculations against smallpox and anthrax. No big deal, except you couldn’t lift your arm for about a day.

And just think about why we don’t have smallpox killing people today. …….Just a hint ~ THE SMALLPOX VACCINE!

It’s just TERRIBLE the number of people that are still suffering from Polio…

Are you equating Donald Trump with Benedict Arnold?

They were not stupid then like today’s anti democracy republican disease spreaders are.

I have flagged johnhbaggett’s post because yet again he has repeated a false claim of vaccine deaths. The VAERS site from which he got those numbers says quite clearly that these death totals are for all deaths occurring within a certain time after vaccination and do NOT specify the cause of death. Since the average age of those dying is 70, one can safely assume that there was some other cause of death than the vaccines in most cases. Correlation (and it isn’t even good correlation here) does not verify causation.

Cartoon makes sense. Benedict Arnold was a leading conservative at the time.

For want of a vaccine, the revolution could have failed.

Read about that battle in the book “1776”.In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence — when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.

Correlation is not causation, trolls. People with fibromyalgia are much more likely to have migraines. That doesn’t mean FMS causes migraines or vice versa.

Very good, sir!

What ever happened to Typhoid Mary. How did she end up?

iS this when Washington was on his way to defend the airports? Mr. Baggett meet Mr. Montana Bill

I went to the commissary at Naval Air Station Oceana today, and everybody was wearing a mask again, after two months of no masks. No one complained…

If that really were the case….we’d still be a British colony?

Is Mike on vacation?

Nothing changes. Their will always be doubt and ignorance.

Is Mike on vacation? I hope he hasn’t retired.