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If Covid had symptoms as physically horrific as Smallpox, Bubonic Plague or Ebola, I think there would be fewer people rejecting a vaccine.

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You would think that, but there was a smallpox epidemic in Montreal in 1885 where vaccination became mandatory, and people rebelled against that, attacked pharmacies selling the vaccine, etc.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89pid%C3%A9mie_de_variole_...

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If it didn't, there would be less need for one, no?

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