"In the real world, "patriotism" embodies the words of the Supreme Court in 1905 as they endorsed government-mandated smallpox vaccination: "Individual liberty is not absolute in the face of 'the common good,' and that 'real liberty for all' depends on restraining individual exercises of liberty that harm others." This was also seen in our eager and active, unified national response to the polio epidemic in the 1950s." Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH,
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