• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      We can’t even come together to wear a peice of cloth to slow the spread of a virus.

      • No one washes their hands — Increased infection rates.
      • Research doctors don’t work — Reduced cure research speed.
      • Sick people given hugs — Infectivity increased once spotted.
        – Plague Inc. description of Easy Difficulty (Written before the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown)
    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The cloth does nothing to stop the virus but also completely cuts off oxygen to your brain.

      No I will not explain. It’s your job to educate yourself by watching more Jordan Peterson videos.

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      Actually we DID. Tho’ only for a little while. And the results were enormous. The B/Yamgata Influenza lineage appears to have gone extinct. The cool part is we weren’t even trying to do anything with those specific efforts to affect influenza. All of which should encourage us to cooperate more.

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          Doctor Ignaz Semmelweiss in the mid-1800s suggested that obstetricians should wash and sterilize their hands before attending their patients to reduce the chance of postpartum infection. He was rejected by the medical community, ridiculed by colleagues, and eventually locked in an asylum where he was killed.

          We’re sliding back in time.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            People forget the most important bit. The clapback to Semmelweiss from other doctors was “A doctor’s hands are always clean!”

            Humans are irrational fucking idiots and we prove it daily. The number of us who are willing to protect our own in-group over things they don’t deserve to be protected over is too damn high.

          • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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            Semmelweiss is also partially responsible for the widespread rejection of his findings. He basically called doctors who did not follow his advice murderers which naturally didn’t help his popularity. Antagonising someone who you are trying to convince usually just entrenches their opinions further.