“It’s difficult to apply history to modern day; most scenarios are deeply nuanced, with too many extraneous factors to allow for a fair equivalence. Even so, Boston’s early public health system relied on an essential ingredient lacking today: trust.”
I’m happy to have had my research featured in this piece for @wgbh.org! It’s a short version of the arguments I made in my book, namely that revolutionary Americans understood their government had a duty to protect them from epidemic disease.
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Also please stop making my research timely and relevant!
My wife has been painting bricks for our garden to look like classic books. Here are a couple of favorites:
You’re probably asking in this 250th anniversary of 1776: “how did Americans in the Revolutionary era handle people who tried to leave quarantine early?” Well, in 1774, sailors in Mass. threatened to kill patients who broke quarantine rules and later burned the hospital that allowed early exits.
Celebrate #America250 the way that Abigail Adams celebrated July 4, 1776: participate in a public-health campaign against infectious diseases.
Someone is upset that he’s not coming on our upcoming trip…