re: #74 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And yet these idiots are always going on about The FoundersTM (Peace be upon them) and what they would do….

The Founders used to inoculate (not vaccinate) people for smallpox. Any idea what that means, wingnuts? I thought not. It means to infect a person with pus from a smallpox sufferer in order to give them a somewhat milder case themselves.

The advantage of this was that you could do it at a time of your choosing when resources weren’t overloaded during an epidemic and there were people available to take care of you. As a bonus, it had only about a 10% chance of killing you, instead of the usual 30% or more.

And you know what? They were delighted to do it!!! You pusillanimous pantywaists don’t have any idea what disease is all about. Unfortunately, you may be about to find out.

Actually they inoculated with cowpox which was a much milder form of the smallpox virus.