It is a little known fact today that George Washington overreached his authority and unilaterally ordered a quarantine of American citizens fleeing the British occupation of Boston and an outbreak of smallpox in the city in 1775.
The tyrannical general, who had recently arrived in Cambridge to take command of the new Continental Army in the aftermath of the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, ruthlessly crushed the potential smallpox carriers’ freedom to spread the contagion to his army camp on the unfounded theory that large groups of people moving from a virus stricken area into other areas can spread that virus.
The liberal fascist ignored critics who suggested letting the virus spread naturally and creating herd immunity and imposed the heavy hand of big government on the beleaguered Bostonians. Later, the despotic “Father of the Country” ordered his troops to be inoculated against the virus in a clear concession to politically correct medical science rather than allowing the free market and individual liberty work their magic the way they always do in times of crisis.
Washington bumbled his way to success in the Revolutionary War, but he had created the template for today’s thuggish socialist governors, who, with the stroke of a pen, shut down the mighty engine of American free enterprise and stifle that most basic of American freedoms: the right to share deadly microbes and viruses.