In a prior thesis, OP also gave his reasons for not getting a COVID vaccination.
Benjamin Franklin also took the risk of not getting his young son vaccinated for smallpox. That decision didn't work out well.
"Despite Franklin's enthusiasm for the inoculation, he didn't inoculate his young son, Franky, who died from the disease in 1731 during an outbreak in Philadelphia.
In his autobiography, Franklin wrote, "I long regretted bitterly & still regret that I had not given it [smallpox] to him by inoculation." Coss said this suggests Franklin had a choice about whether to inoculate his son, but didn't because his wife disagreed with the decision. Indeed, in 1759, Franklin wrote that if "one parent or near relation is against [inoculation], the other does not chuse to inoculate a child without free consent of all parties, lest in case of a disastrous event, perpetual blame should follow."
Read more at Smithsonian.com.
Originally published on Live Science.
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