Why Washington gave us the finger

The meme of George Washington flipping the bird to us is not a joke. He really did fight a revolution in the midst of a smallpox epidemic that was 33 times as deadly as COVID-19.

America is not being quarantined. It is being shut down by traitorous governors who ignore decency, the law, and the Constitution to suppress a free people.

Smallpox killed about one in three people infected.

Using New York's figures of 20,000 dead among 2.7 million infected, the death rate is less than 1% for COVID-19.

That rate is half the 2% rate of death among those who were inoculated against smallpox.

The Army Heritage Center had a nice history of what Washington faced.

It began its report, "During the Revolutionary War, one of the greatest threats to the Army came not from enemy bullets, but from disease.  Perhaps the most dreaded disease was smallpox, caused by a virus that kills one out of every three infected people.  Because smallpox was common in England, most British soldiers had already been exposed and were immune, but the disease was less common in America and the average Continental Soldier was not.

"As early as 1775, General George Washington knew smallpox was a serious problem for his Army.  Throughout the fall and into the winter of 1775, an outbreak raged in the city of Boston.  Rumors abounded that the British were deliberately spreading the disease.  When the British finally evacuated Boston in March 1776, only Soldiers who had already had the disease were allowed into the city.  Washington ordered his doctors to keep a sharp watch for smallpox and to send infected men to the isolation hospital immediately."

The war began in 1775.

There was no vaccine but inoculation was available.

The report said, "There were three problems with inoculation. The first was that inoculated Soldiers could transmit smallpox until fully recovered, so an inoculation program could trigger an uncontrollable epidemic. Secondly, the inoculated Soldiers would be unfit for duty for weeks while recovering, and as many as 2% of his Soldiers could die. If the British attacked while the men were out of commission the Army could be destroyed. The third was that the inoculation process was simple enough that the men could do it themselves in secret."

John Adams wrote, "The smallpox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians, together."

But there was no shutdown of the country. They soldiered on, isolating the infected and not the healthy.

Disease is the biggest fear generals have and with good reason. Britain's finest hour (until the London Blitz) was the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

The History Channel reported, "Upon landing in northern France, Henry marched his army to the mouth of the Seine and besieged the strategically important city of Harfleur. The 28-year-old expected the town to fall in a few days, but the siege dragged on for five grueling weeks, during which at least a third of his army was killed or incapacitated by dysentery. The king pressed on toward Calais, however, eventually covering some 200 miles in 16 days before being blocked by a French army near the modern day village of Azincourt. When the battle finally began on October 25, the English were exhausted, filthy and nearly starving. Many were also reeling from the stomach-turning effects of dysentery. According to historian Juliet Barker, some of Henry’s archers 'were reduced to cutting off their soiled breeches and undergarments in an attempt to allow nature to take its course more easily.'"

America needs to soldier on. We are fighting Red China, not a disease, and many billionaires back home are collaborating. They succeeded in shutting down the economy with a mass hysteria that has people afraid of leaving home.

No one trusts the numbers. No one should.

It’s weird how all other deaths in NY have declined while Wuhan Virus deaths have dramatically increased pic.twitter.com/8sVxx5Uz2O

— 🇺🇸 Cris 🇵🇷 (@TreyDwag2020) April 24, 2020

Unless COVID-19 cures cancer, they lie.

Governors usurped our rights and we applaud them.

General Washington would be ashamed.