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It wouldn't even be hard to come up with good reasons to oppose this and they ended up with "you'll grow cow tumors?"
Yeah like back then there was a reason to be scared, a non trivial percentage of people actually got smallpox and died.
How do anti-vaxxers account for Smallpox essentially being wiped out?
Crazy but it worked. Another method was to grind up dried up the pustules and snort it.
Yup, George Washington ordered all his troops to insufflate small pox scabs at Valley Forge.
This sounds like the kind of shit anti-vaxxers would do as a "natural alternative" to getting a jab
I remember seeing this in a history channel documentary on the American war for independance.
There's a scene that depicts this in HBO's John Adams miniseries. Looks pretty gnarly.
