18th century 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/27/2020
During Epidemics, Media (and now Social Media) have Always Helped People to Connect
by David Paul Nord
For several hundred years, people have used media — reading, writing and print — to maintain human contact and community in times of epidemic disease.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/8/2020
A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.
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