Yes. I deliberately tried not to get COVID. I know. That makes me bad in your mind, but I was really more concerned about giving COVID to vulnerable people, which seems like it was kind of a priority.
The best way to not infect others is to get infected yourself ahead of time, so you know when you are a risk to others and can safely quarantine.
There is no other safe way to do it.
If you simply social distance, you can still get infected but not know it, so you won't be under quarantine and WILL spread it for sure.
It is identical to the situation faced by Gen. Washington in 1777, and his correct solution was to pick deliberate infection ahead of time.
With smallpox, that was known as variolation.
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George Washington knew what to do when it came to fighting the British. And he knew what was needed to contain smallpox from spreading throughout the Colonies and his army.
Inoculation against smallpox dated back to ancient China. But in Colonial America, the process, called variolation, was controversial and dangerous.
It involved cutting an incision in someone’s skin and inserting a small amount of the live smallpox virus. (In 1796, Edward Jenner would invent a way to do this using cowpox.)
But the procedure still had a fatality rate of 5-10% — not great. King George III’s son died an agonizing death when his dose was improperly applied.
And many Americans didn’t trust the process. When inoculation was tried out in Boston in 1721, anti-vaxxers of the 18th-century were outraged and
firebombed the house of the man behind the immunization effort. They believed he was actually spreading the disease — and defying the will of God.
Even in Washington’s time, variolation was illegal in his home state of Virginia.
But the general knew he needed to act. Washington was worried that the British would figure out the chink in the Americans’ armor, and use their men as walking bioweapons.
After some initial hesitation, Washington made his choice. He would inoculate his army. On February 5, 1777, he wrote a letter to John Hancock, the president of the Second Continental Congress, informing him of his decision.
“The small pox has made such Head in every Quarter that I find it impossible to keep it from spreading thro’ the whole Army in the natural way,” Washington stated.
“I have therefore determined, not only to innoculate all the Troops now here, that have not had it, but shall order Docr. Shippen to innoculate the Recruits as fast as they come in to Philadelphia.”
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While fighting the Revolutionary War, George Washington pushed a controversial process called variolation to inoculate his troops against smallpox.
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