The Founding Fathers Would Want Us to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine

J.M. Opal

Coronavirus, The Americas

For all their failures and divisions, they all supported inoculation or vaccination. They did so because they embraced the basic arguments of the Enlightenment: people were not sentenced to the shadows and sorrows of the past, but rather made to live, to learn and ultimately to lift each other out of darkness and despair.

With the United States Capitol overrun by Trump’s deplorables, it was easy to miss the other calamity that hit America last week...