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In the context of COVID-19's global impact, it is important to remember what was accomplished on Dec. 9, 1979.

Been vaccinated in boston since january the 1st, the board of health ordered that all the inhabitants of this city be vaccinated or revaccinated forthwith. the board explains that although there has been a most remarkable cooperation throughout the city, the medical profession and the people in general, having acquiesced to a most remarkable extent in its request for vaccination, it is necessary in order to stamp out the smallpox epidemic that all persons not protected by vaccination or revaccination shall be vaccinated, end quote. now, this was about the deadly boston smallpox epidemic of 190...

Government is allowed to do in the name of public health. and also the vaccine mandate in boston worked. you can see from this chart that smallpox cases in boston peaked in december of 1901. at the end of that month the health department announced the vaccine mandate, and from there cases came steadily down from their peak until the very last few cases were documented in the spring of 1903. now, it bears mentioning that boston's response to the smallpox epidemic and the supreme court ruling upholding it were far from perfect. public health authorities in boston, for instance, vaccinated people...

Court." that's exactly what ended up happening. a local pastor named hemming jacobson refused to be vaccinated. he refused to pay the $5 fine. he took his case all the way to the supreme court of the united states. and he lost. in its opinion the supreme court wrote, "there is of course a sphere within which the individual may assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute the authority of any human government, especially of any free government existing under a written constitution. but it is equally true that in every well-ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the s...

State, local governments legally able to require vaccinations for employees Workplaces could require employees to be vaccinated By Camille Connor | December 22, 2020 at 2:31 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 6:36 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - As the COVID-19 vaccine continues to be shipped across the country, employees wonder if their place of business will require them to be vaccinated. “It doesn’t violate the 14th amendment,” said Tressa Johnson, partner and employment attorney with Johnson & Bennet Law PLLC. Can employers require you to get a vaccine? Johnson added that government emp...