Saturday, September 18, 2021

Historical context and precedent


From a century ago...

 


And from the 50s, when more than 54% of the country believed in science and public health ...


Sound familiar? 

And for the libertarian hold-outs out there who don’t recognize that it’s time for vaccine mandates...

"Society based on the rule that each one is a law unto himself would soon be confronted with disorder and anarchy. Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others." - from the 1905 Supreme Court ruling in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts regarding Jacobson's refusal to get the smallpox vaccine.

Health care workers have to have some humor amidst the vaccine-refusing defiance we face every day from patients and parents:







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