What Would The Founding Fathers Say?

Many have asked how this was possible if vaccination was not discovered until 1796. That's true, but this is inoculation or variolation introduced by Cotton Mather's African slave Onesimus and first applied broadly in Boston in 1721. It was eventually replaced by vaccination.

— Andrew Wehrman (@ProfWehrman) December 29, 2020

Gym Jordan sets the pace.

The Founders enforced quarantine orders with armed militias to preclude intercity travel during an epidemic, and John Adams used a ten-minute-long State of the Union address to call for expanding federal authority to coordinate epidemic response. https://t.co/DP3CfXLqGd

— tedfrank 😷 (@tedfrank) December 29, 2020

John Cornyn, brisket-murderer, would like you to know that Google and Twitter etc. are "dee facto public utilities."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 29, 2020

De facto, but not de jure?

Good Lord. https://t.co/GCLTaPhVzq

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 29, 2020

"How did this guy get in?"

Jim Imhofe just said that Barack Obama's "top priority was not defending America."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 29, 2020

Same question.

In a spectacular act of casual cruelty, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told everybody else in the national government—and, through that action, every one of his struggling fellow citizens—to pound sand. https://t.co/DPLc83VMQe

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 29, 2020

The question just keeps coming up.

Stockjobber says what? https://t.co/B45defWhul

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 29, 2020

"Politics hasn’t changed much in 244 years.”