The aristocratic slave owners of America had no concerns their property would die of smallpox. African slaves came inoculated from smallpox. It would seem that vaccination against COVID would be a good business practice for modern day corporate aristocrats

 Slaves brought from Africa to work on the plantations of Southern aristocrats came vaccinated from smallpox. African slave’s knowledge of how to administer the vaccinations is why George Washington, himself an aristocratic slave owner, beat the British.

The variolation method of inoculation was long practiced in Africa among sub-Saharan people. The practice was widespread among enslaved colonial people from many regions of Africa and, throughout the slave trade in the Americas, slave communities continued the practice of inoculation despite regional origin.^[4]

“Enquiring of my Negro-man Onesimus, who is a pretty Intelligent Fellow, Whether he ever had the Small-Pox; he answered, both, Yes, and No; and then told me, that he had undergone an Operation, which had given him something of the Small-Pox, and would forever preserve him from it, adding that it was often used among the Guramantese, & whoever had the Courage to use it, was forever free from the Fear of the Contagion. He described the Operation to me, and showed me in his Arm the Scar.^[11][12]

Mather, in a 1716 letter to the Royal Society of London, on his introduction to inoculation from Onesimus'

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Onesimus (Bostonian)  (late 1600s–1700s^[1]) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The fully vaccinated aristocratic slave owners of the antebellum South made sure their human assets were vaccinated. The fully vaccinated corporate aristocrats of U.S. corporate sports teams do not require their human assets to be vaccinated:

“The NBA does not require players to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to play. However, referees and other staff who work closely with players are required to be fully vaccinated.”

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The British would have won our Revolutionary War if George Washington had refused to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox.

George Washington contributed greatly to the progression of public health systems in America. During his time working with the Continental Army, Washington observed how smallpox and other diseases spread like wildfire through Army camps and gatherings. This was often due to the cramped and dirty living conditions of these places. Washington understood the destructive nature of smallpox and other diseases such as malaria, diphtheria, and scarlet fever. He was one of the first to introduce the idea of compulsory health initiatives such as widespread inoculation. Washington also had experience with disease outside the realm of combat and war. Having himself suffered from many illnesses and observing those of his family, George Washington was an integral part of the establishment of American public health programs.^[8]

Along with quarantine, another one of Washington's methods for keeping his men healthy was with the use of inoculation. Washington, like others of the time period, was not intimately familiar with the exact mechanisms of the virus. However, he and others were able to realize that men who had previously contracted and subsequently recovered from smallpox were unlikely to become ill a second time. Thus, early on Washington recognized the strategic advantage of these individuals. During an outbreak in Boston, Washington sent troops made up only of men who had previously been infected with smallpox. With this, he was able to both protect his soldiers and take advantage of the vulnerability of Boston and its British inhabitants during the smallpox outbreak of March 1776.^[7]

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1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic