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[–] • 11 pts

but smallpox is a real actual disease

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Yup, this is a false equivalence. It's like thinking a bullet wound, and scratch are the same.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Exactly, that Kruse shithead was just trying to be a snarky smartass son of a bitch and came off a looking like a bigger prick spewing out stupidity. Fuck that faggot !

[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

Washington quarantined the infected

We're quarantining the healthy.

[–] • 4 pts

Quarantine is by definition isolation of the sick. What is happening is, uh... something else.

[–] • 6 pts

I bet they weren't quarantined for 2 fucking years!

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

A quick search verifies that it did happen, but I wouldn't trust any article written in the past two years on the details.

Wikipedia says he quarantined his troops who showed symptoms, individual households were quarantined and his army made strategic retreats from areas with known outbreaks. There were no lockdowns and the head of the household was legally responsible for anyone in the household who had smallpox getting out.

The troops in Boston were to monitor/forcefully quarantine individual households with smallpox.

[–] • 1 pt

i bet the people who were not sick weren't quarantined for 2 years.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I bet no one had asymptomatic small pox.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

these are all separate things:

a) quarantine the infected. especially the homeless, get them off of the street and into a ward where they can be cared for. makes sense.

b) refused to accept people from hotspots to join the army. makes sense.

c) sent a thousand soldiers to Boston... well, yes, they were sent to monitor quarantined households.

dude is just practicing wizzardry.

[–] • 1 pt

seeing as i cant find anything about it from before 2020....id wager a hard "no"

[–] • 1 pt

The problem is liberals keep changing the definitions of everything, the only thing i can think of relating to Boston was the Boston massacre in that time period

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

Pretty sure if someone suggested imprisoning the entire population of the country in their houses indefinitely, the majority of founding fathers would have been against it regardless of the reason. Particularly if it was a sickness with a 99.7% recovery rate. In comparison Small Pox has a and only a 70% recovery rate.