How horrified would the Founding Fathers (cue Judeo-Christian heavenly chorus) be about our lockdown measures infringing on liberty? Representative Jim Jordan, (R-Ohio), was foolish enough to rhetorically ask that:
People who knew some actual history explained to Congresscreature Jordan about smallpox quarantines instituted by George Washington. They weren't particularly polite about it:
"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper
Quote:Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
60 million Americans are subject to a stay at home order or curfew.
11 million are right here in Ohio.
What would the Founders say?
People who knew some actual history explained to Congresscreature Jordan about smallpox quarantines instituted by George Washington. They weren't particularly polite about it:
Quote:Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald
@kurteichenwald
This is why we shouldn't elect wrestling coaches to be in congress if they have no passed a basic history and civics course first. Boston had a complete lockdown in 1778 after a smallpox outbreak. Many of the founders were there. They abided by it for months.
3:34 PM · Dec 29, 2020
Quote:The Rude Pundit
@rudepundit
It would have taken you less than a fucking minute to google this shit and discovered that George Washington ordered quarantines during the small pox epidemic in the 1770s-80s.
4:52 PM · Dec 29, 2020
Quote:Kevin M. Kruse-----
@KevinMKruse
There was a massive smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution.
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.
You should try reading a book sometime.
1:47 PM · Dec 29, 2020
"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper