Newcomer spring of 1721, Bach, Johann Sebastian, was busy in reviewing the final details of those initially be called Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments , and that little bit later to become the Brandenburg Concertos BWV. At the same time, far from Brandenburg and notes Baroque Boston graphite and a house was bombed not yet called Molotov but equally burned. That house was that of Cotton Mather, a clergyman and natural history that gave value to that of an African slave about in their village of origin, to the danger of a smallpox epidemic, were inoculated healthy population dropping tiny droplets of pus in scratches made for that purpose. Mather wrote a short treatise on the disease and proposed the use of inoculations as prevention given the strength of the data collected. And is that contrary to what is commonly thought, the European populations in America were ravaged by smallpox with equal force than natives. The isolation of many of the missions and colonies for decades to perfect prey for the new strains that arose between the indigenous population. With all the prestige of the poor Mather declined to levels that would see Dr. Abel Cruz and mamey shakes with celery for the prostate as a Nobel prize. However, a doctor named Zabdiel Bylston before you laugh (or later, perhaps) with the mass, read and reread the reports until he decided to inoculate his son before the imminence of a new epidemic. The graffiti appeared but his son was saved as the 286 most Bostonians who were vaccinated, including mortality was only 2% instead of 35% in the rest of the population. Since then the road has been long, only in the twentieth century died nearly 500 million people for smallpox, It is interesting that the type of people who tried to burn houses Bylston Mather and was similar to that take decades before the pyre about 200 people in the region by practicing witchcraft. But the darkness of the minds is quite persistent. Fear of vaccines has emerged in the last 15 years. Polio was the first warning when the Internet, the fruit of reason and often the instrument of ignorance, spread the idea that the polio vaccine caused autism and cancer. No wonder that H1N1 vaccine was received with suspicion in Mexico, especially in populations with a profile similar to the scientific culture of the Salem witch burners, ie deputies and senators. And just so Labastida not going to claim that I told sissy for not getting the vaccine, the better I speak of dipupunk Cristian Vargas. Yes, the same as it was blunt, he broke a window chair shots (AAA style), threw a bicycle at the parliament building and says that it has jurisdiction, that. That's not getting the vaccine because it was a farce and now has pneumonia. They say that it was H1N1, which is pure coincidence that a young man of 90 kilos, perfectly healthy is in intensive care, unconscious and on life support a resfriadito. Since it is possible and likely people will believe you press the Legislature of the City in an act of intellectual goodwill. All indications are that medical science, that he despises and does not understand, will help you recover, hopefully so, to be recovered, and realize that rather than exchanging bottles, pieces of paper with saliva and bikes flying in parliament should exchange ideas and reasons. It is that time, Members are far away from the beauty and intelligence of Bach as Bostonians XVIII century houses burning
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