In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
During the Revolutionary War, smallpox took such a brutal toll that George Washington decided to inoculate the troops in 1777, ensuring the survival of the United States.
This came to mind watching Hegseth scrap the Pentagon’s policy on flu vaccines for no reason.
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The Pentagon will stop requiring members of the military to get flu vaccines. Image Hegseth, wearing a blue suit, a tie and American flag pocket square, stands in front of an American flag. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that service members would no longer have to get flu vaccines.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times The Pentagon will no longer require troops to get annual flu vaccines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, calling the policy an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.
George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox.
Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
For example, George Washington would never have believed that truly masculine soldiers were in need of inoculation against smallpox to fight the British
*Laughs uncontrollably in historian of vaccination
Tweet from Hegseth that says The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
Public health got started largely in the
military for a reason, Hegseth.
Remember the 1918 flu pandemic.
Remember Walter Reed’s work on malaria.
Remember George Washington ordering his troops to be inoculated against smallpox.
this dumbass is pissing on our founding fathers’ graves! george washington ordered the continental army be inoculated against smallpox 251 years ago
George Washington originally wanted the Washington Monument to be built from the bones of dead British soldiers.
Gen. George Washington literally had the Revolutionary Army inoculated against smallpox at Valley Forge.
George Washington ordered his troops to get the smallpox inoculation. Because an infectious disease burning through the armed forces is what weakens our war-fighting capabilities.
These people are cretinous fanatics.
Tis true.
"Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated." - General George Washington, 6 Feb 1777
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In 1777, George Washington mandated that all members of the Continental Army be inoculated for smallpox.
In 2026, Pete Hegseth—citing the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate—ended the requirement that service members receive a flu vaccine.
Secretary Hegseth's tweet: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."
George Washington: we need a healthy fighting force, so let’s protect our people and mandate smallpox inoculation.
Secretary Hegseth: healthy forces are overrated. Let’s not protect our military from influenza.
been reading American Revolution history recently and can’t stop thinking about George Washington ordering smallpox inoculation of all Continental Army soldiers and recruits
George Washington enforced smallpox inoculation in the Continental Army in 1776 and it helped America win the war of independence
General George Washington, who ordered the mandatory inoculation of the soldiers of the Continental Army against smallpox, is rolling in his grave.
We are truly lead by the stupidest of people.
The irony of fact that he's saying this in front of a portrait of George Washington, who very famously vaccinated his troops against smallpox, is not lost on me.
The Army's history of using preventive vaccinations began in 1777 when George Washington ordered the inoculation of all Continental Army recruits to prevent smallpox, an extremely infectious and serious disease. In the years since, USAMRMC researchers have developed vaccines that have prevented diseases in the military but have also helped safeguard public health. "While the Army has developed many vaccines, the development of the influenza vaccine is probably the vaccine that most Americans recognize," said Capt. Xiaoxu Lin, Ph.D., laboratory director of the USAMRMC's Walter Reed Army Institute of Research's Viral Diseases Branch.
Kinda interesting that GEORGE WASHINGTON used early inoculation/vaccination to protect his troops against small pox because he knew the risk of disease better than so many "leaders" 250 years later.
Source, our army's history: www.army.mil/article/1543...
Maximum lethality just not in the way he thinks. The Spanish Flu would like a word.
Even George Washington mandated smallpox inoculation for the Continental Army.
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