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From the government’s perspective, maybe. People still need to decide whether they want to take on the risk of attending a protest, and they should be informed

• chasil 6y ago
  In 1789, the year of ratification of the U.S. constitution, smallpox was still a lethal disease. Preventative treatment for smallpox was a procedure named "variolation," which involved purposeful infection with smallpox by a scratch. Variolation had a 3% fatality rate; normal transmission of smallpox was 15-20%. A person who had recently undergone variolation could transmit the disease normally, and definitely required isolation. George Washington required all members of the continental army to undergo variolation in our rebellion against the British. The United States has faced enormous pressure from disease, and no mark of this is in the first amendment. (p.s. I am surprised that we have not attempted the equivalent of variolation with ancestors of the current corona virus.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation