Gurteen Knowledge Blog December 17, 2021, 10:12
Precisely 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow Bostonians faced a deadly smallpox outbreak in America.
The story is fascinating and has many parallels with the current Covid pandemic. There is much we can learn from the episode. As the story shows, in 300 years, scientifically, we have progressed tremendously, but socially not so much.
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