Catherine the Great Letter Extolling Virtues of Vaccination Is Up for Auction (smithsonianmag.com) 9 points by pseudolus 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] 1cvmask 4y ago ↗ Luckily she was the head of state. They firebombed the vaccine evangelist Cotton Mather’s house in 1721:https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/07/smallpox-c...
[–] datenarsch 4y ago ↗ On that note, Catherine the Great had her own husband and several other people brutally murdered to illegitimately usurp the Russian throne and was a terribly repressive and authoritarian despot, even if she liked to claim otherwise.
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