"inoculation and vaccination" Topic

Saw Hegseth has rescinded the "get vaccinated against the flu" mandate.

NOT coincidentally, seeing posts on FB that GW "vaccinated" the Continentals against smallpox. Which is technically wrong, as Jenner didn't discover the cowpox vaccine until 179something. GW inoculated his army, and inoculation killed 1 t0 2%.

And smallpox is a different problem than the flu.

Yes, GW had his army inoculated against small pox with live virus as was the only way, as I understand things. John Adams and his family and many others chose that type of "controlled" inoculation as opposed to gambling against catching it through the epidemic of the time.
The flu is seemingly different, I would agree. I still disagree with anti-vacs crowd, but, whatever. I got mine.

It's a Good Thing that RFKII and the former Fox News weekend guy weren't around for the AWI. We would still be speaking English.

Do we know the story of Cotton Mather's fragging?

On the night of November 14, 1721, someone threw a homemade bomb (essentially an early grenade) through the window of Cotton Mather's house in Boston. A note was attached that read almost exactly what you remembered:
"COTTON MATHER, You Dog, Dam You; I'll inoculate you with this, with a Pox to you."
The fuse fell out when it landed, so it didn't explode—otherwise Mather (and possibly his family) might have been killed. This was a direct threat because Mather was the loudest public champion of inoculation (variolation) during the epidemic. Opponents saw it as playing God or deliberately spreading disease; the bomber was basically saying, "If you want to give people smallpox on purpose, here's some for you."
Mather wasn't hurt, and the attack actually backfired—it helped rally some support for inoculation once people saw how violent the opposition had become.