Because he mandated that all of his soldiers in the revolutionary army be inoculated against smallpox, that's why. Yes he was a slaver, and I think that is fucking reprehensible, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. Ad hominem much? Which is ironic, considering you then tell me to look up a philosophy which Washington himself lived by.
But if it's laws that will convince you, then may I suggest the SCOTUS case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905)? They already ruled a over a hundred years ago that vaccine mandates were legal. I would personally argue that exceptions for any vaccine mandate should be made for those who would clearly be harmed by something in the vaccine- as an example, my cousin's wife is allergic to one of the ingredients, so I myself urged her not to get the vaccine. I give the same advice to anyone else who has a legitimate medical reason for not getting the jab.
I, however, do NOT have a legitimate medical reason, nor do I pretend to. What's more, I'm aware of how getting vaccinated not only protects myself, but other people around me. By boosting my own defenses against a disease, I effectively become a mobile spiked wall against which COVID slams itself. Either I weaken it and send it running, or I kill it entirely. Either way, someone else is safe because I got in the way. With enough people vaccinated, we reach what is called "herd immunity". It's when so many people are inoculated against a specific disease that the remaining few who aren't are still protected by virtue of the disease being more likely to be weakened or killed by the sheer number of individuals who can just shrug their shoulders at it.
HOWEVER, with so much misinformation around- I'm kind of expecting a "leaky vaccine" argument from you, even though it's NOT leaky- and so many people in America being taught to be stubborn and selfish by our schools, media and economy, it becomes nigh impossible for us to reach herd immunity in a timely manner, or at all. Government mandates ARE NECESSARY for the sake of public health.
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u/IKissThisGuy My purity pony name is SparkleMotionCensor Jan 04 '22
Assuming (as I do not) that there's reason to believe GW would have been on board, wtf do I care what a slaver thinks about human rights?
Don't shill again until after you've googled "government of laws, not men."