This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Welcome back to have Hartman here with you.

Well, in New York State, there are some politicians and some public health experts who are

having an honest and serious discussion about the need if this anti-mask, anti-vac,

acts, all this kind of crap continues, the need to make COVID vaccinations mandatory.

And as soon as you say that phrase, cue the hysteria from the Republican cultists.

Oh, my God, they're good.

And now they're like, oh, microchips and I, I mean, it's just all this weird stuff that

is complete fantasy that's being peddled on Facebook by and large.

And these people are just buying into.

I mean, it's mind-boggling as they're running around breathing on people.

And even in the Supreme Court, the Republican cultists, they said, oh, you know, the founders

of our republic, the framers of the Constitution, they'd never go along with closing churches

and synagogues or preventing them from holding large, super-spreader events, they would

never do that.

Well, actually, they did do that.

The capital of the United States from 1790 to 1800 was Philadelphia.

In 1793, Philadelphia had a massive, yellow fever epidemic.

Nobody knew what caused it.

They didn't realize it was caused by mosquitoes.

They did know, though, that it came in the summer and it left in the fall.

And it didn't happen at all throughout the winter in the early spring.

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