Post COVID, we continue working for a more perfect Union
We’ve checked in with our team and are thankful that everyone is well and weathering the current pandemic. Our best wishes go to the many people who have walked with us on the journey to get Molly produced, including Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell, Philly Film Office Director Sharon Pinkenson, and so many more.
During the Revolutionary War, people battled the spread of smallpox. Like our Corona Virus, smallpox claimed scores of lives. Though there was not too much known about viruses and their transitions, English colonists in North America recognized the effectiveness of isolating individuals infected with smallpox. It was widely recognized that there were only two options for protecting oneself against this disease, quarantine or inoculation. Many feared inoculation, and instead chose isolation via quarantine. If needed, the scale of the quarantine could be increased. This meant cutting off entire towns from the rest of the colonies.
And unlike us, they didn’t have Facebook or Zoom. It was tough on a lot of us not to be able to hold our loved ones but at least we could see them virtually.
Like our CDC, many of the leading figures associated with the American Revolution worked together to stop the disastrous spread of smallpox throughout the American Colonies and beyond, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
During the late 1700s, It was difficult for them to understand how the infection of an otherwise healthy person could have a positive outcome. However, inoculation saved many lives and may have protected the Continental Army from destruction. The smallpox inoculation program paved the way for the global public health system that is responsible for the control and eradication of many deadly diseases; including polio, measles and diphtheria.
Like Molly Pitcher and all the Colonists of her time, we are weathering a pandemic. It’s not the first tough time many of us have experienced. Nor will it be the last. History has shown us that and will continue doing so.
We are a culture that continues to strive for change and work toward a better world because we are the People of the United States, and in Order to form a more perfect Union, to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, our ancestors established this Constitution for the United States of America.
The bold words of our Constitution are so much more than lines on a page. They should be etched in our hearts.