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WOKE LIBERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON IS UNAMERICAN, PASS IT ON Early Modern Period (~1600 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Small pox is quite different from the flu lol

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

    So is the treatment.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation

    For smallpox, they’d infect a break in your skin, deliberately. With actual smallpox. It was less likely to kill you, but absolutely possible and quite miserable.

    But principle is the same. Outbreaks dramatically weaken war fighting capabilities, even if it’s “just” influenza. The history of warfare is littered with thousands of examples. For instance:

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us/notes-museum/wwi-wwii-1918-influenza-pandemic-and-innovation

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/flu

    …Which is why this is so egregious. Vaccination (compared to smallpox inoculation) is trivially easy in comparison to the decision Washington faced, and influenza has a long, grim history in the US military. No sane general would throw away such an easy, and historic, warfighting advantage.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Young, well fed, healthy troops do not suffer from the flu

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    .... Do you know what influenza even is? Are you mistaking it for the common cold? I've noticed a lot of people who disparage the flu and the flu vaccine think that it's just another word for the common cold everyone gets every year.

    While unlikely to die, it can easily render them incapable of fighting or training for a week or so, and less effective for a around twice that long.

    Saying "healthy people don't get sick" is either profoundly ignorant, or a self fulfilling tautology, since once you're sick your quite obviously not healthy.

    In any case, there's no dimension where the flu vaccine isn't several order of magnitude less disruptive than the disease.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Young, well fed men and women suffer from the flu every day lol. What are you smoking?

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