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Guess he's been sipping on that RFK koolaid. Mark Kelly responds:

Mark Kelly is either ignorant or lying. Revolutionary War ended in 1783. The smallpox vaccine was not created until 1796.
George Washington used variolation (inoculation), which used live smallpox virus, had a 2–3% mortality rate, and patients were contagious.
Does Mark Kelly want us to go back to that? @_@

And the flu is nothing like smallpox, so that's a faulty comparison.

Studies show that 60–80% of employees report working while sick with the flu or flu-like symptoms.
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Quote:During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists’ victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpo...ry-war.htm

Alot of the military bunk together in close quarters. They eat together, shit together, and shower together. Not vaccinating them is a recipe for an epidemic.