[The Soup Nazi]

From Zakaria's newsletter, July 16:

Disease Is Nothing New, and Neither Is Resistance to Masks

Looking at yearly death rates in New York City, New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. writes that diseases plagued our recent ancestors to a degree we may have trouble imagining. In the 1800s, yearly deaths per 1,000 people were many times greater than today, even at baseline levels. “The sharpest peaks were the cholera epidemics of 1832, 1849 and 1854,” McNeil writes. “But plagues came in waves, sometimes more than one simultaneously: yellow fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus and meningitis.”

Society adapted over the decades, adopting better public-health practices and sanitation infrastructure—but, as is the case today, resistance was prevalent back then, too. “Libertarians battled almost every step,” McNeil writes. “Some fought sewers and water mains being dug through their properties, arguing that they owned perfectly good wells and cesspools. Some refused smallpox vaccines until the Supreme Court put an end to that in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. In the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, many New Yorkers donned masks but 4,000 San Franciscans formed an Anti-Mask League. (The city’s mayor, James Rolph, was fined $50 for flouting his own health department’s mask order.) Slowly, science prevailed, and death rates went down.”

Over a hundred years and the same bullshit, the same fucked-up mentality. What the fuck do they put in the water there WAIT, DON'T ANSWER THAT - more than one idiot here will say the deep state seeks to control your mind with lizard-people-modified H2O molecules...