There is an almost eerie American Founding-era parallel to the recent kerfuffle over Donald Trump taking hydroxychloroquine.
A terrible contagion was ravaging the capital city, carried there by refugees from a foreign land. Residents were dying every day, with a body count that would eventually reach almost 10 percent of the city's population. Amidst the outbreak, one of the nation's most divisive figures caught the disease. This was a man suspected by his political opponents of anti-democratic tendencies and of favoring economic growth over genuine American values.
No. They instead divided along their usual partisan lines. The dueling treatments, named after the nascent republic's two leading political parties, were dubbed the"Republican" method and the"Federalist" method. Dr. Benjamin Rush, the expert who prescribed the draconian remedies, attributed Hamilton's choice to the fact that he, Rush, was"a decided democrat and a friend of Madison and Hamilton.
We know very little about what ordinary members of the public were thinking back then. But we might guess that they, like so many now, just wished the politicians would put aside their differences and focus on bringing the nation back to health. In that instance, the gay rights movement was in the vanguard of deregulation. Today, pro-deregulation critics of FDA and CDC red tape are more likely to be found on the political right. But plagues are not the time to cleave to dogmas.
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