To help guide us forward, sometimes it is best to look back to the past.
when it comes to practical personal hygiene:"You Cough, Sneeze, Sigh, or Yawn, do it not Loud but Privately; and Speak not in your Yawning, but put Your handkerchief or Hand before your face and turn aside." Washington even had insight into the importance of hand-washing for the health of community! Take rule 15:"Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean yet without Showing any great Concern for them.
Similarly, laced throughout Washington's rules is the importance of a disposition of self-sacrifice in all matters, both great and small. It's obvious that following the social distancing guidelines comes, for many, at a great cost. But voluntarily choosing to follow those guidelines despite those costs requires seeing beyond our own immediate needs and desires and acting for the good of our communities and our nation.
To be sure, there were proponents of similar rules long before Washington. Washington's rules were originally derived from a 17th century Jesuit etiquette manual, which was in turn derived from Florentine Giovanni Della Casa's famous 16th centuryNicomachean Ethics.
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