Contagion, History, Hygiene and Sanitation, Mandates

Noah Webster on Absurd, Unjust Health Measures

“But what I contend for, is, that we must not expect the best health laws, most rigorously executed, will ever be successful in g[uar]ding cities against epidemic pestilence. In our reliance on such [act]ions, we expose ourselves to perpetual disappointment; we expose the lives of citizens; we overlook the true causes of the evil, and neglect the only means of preventing or mitigating its effects.”

Hygiene and Sanitation

Vaccines make Diseases Disappear? Correlation is not Necessarily Causation

A favorite tactic of pro-vaccine propagandists is to dismiss the countless deaths and injuries obviously caused by vaccines by saying “correlation is not causation.”

Of course, this is only used when it suits their purpose. When it comes to disease eradication by vaccines, correlation is most definitely considered by them to be causation; that is, when a vaccine for a particular disease precedes the decline of the disease, then surely, we are told, the vaccine must be responsible.