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Breaking news:  Jim Jordan is an uneducated partisan hack.

https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-founding-fathers/?fbclid=IwAR3tKYNMcAiWA2K5ufLkpa3AjZbIryRnIWlvK3yQTIm2JwPjgIM8T4f3Bnk

Quote:Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) went down in flames Tuesday after claiming that the Founding Fathers wouldn't have approved restrictions, lockdowns and mask orders to protect against the COVID-19 crisis. Historians had another take.


Tweeting their responses, historians recalled the Smallpox outbreak that prompted the exact same precautions taken the year of America's birth.

Many have asked how this was possible if vaccination was not discovered until 1796. That's true, but this is inoculation or variolation introduced by Cotton Mather's African slave Onesimus and first applied broadly in Boston in 1721. It was eventually replaced by vaccination.

— Andrew Wehrman (@ProfWehrman) December 29, 2020

 

4/ Fourth:

"The Founders" would understand -- profoundly -- the risk inherent in epidemics.

The didn't fully understand the cause or cure of curses like cholera and yellow fever, but they understood the need for group action of some kind to fight it.

— Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) December 29, 2020

 

There was a massive smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution.

George Washington quarantined the infected, refused to let people from hot spots travel to his army, and even sent a thousand soldiers to Boston to prevent the spread there. https://t.co/WueBNEnnj6

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 29, 2020

 





Jordan, who earned his master's degree in education at Ohio State University appears to have ignored the education he could have garnered by googling "pandemics" during the early years of the United States.
See some of the other comments at Jordan below: