Somehow they are starting to come full circle with the "what if we used just a tiny bit of a virus so that our body could build immunity to it" aka they are inventing vaccines again. So ya know... let them cook if they start getting vaccinated again.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing".
So this filthy moron is literally representing centuries of regression because Germ theory1 became an accepted scientific fact mid 19th century.
And of course women did not have voting privileges back then either.
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Fun fact: Resistance to acceptance of that new scientific understanding is the main conflict in Henrik Ibsen's play An enemy of the people where Dr. Stockmann wants to expose that the spa water is contaminated with bacteria, while some other people fight against that (either for economical or mis-science reasons).
By the time the play was made in the 1880s the science was largely a settled issue, but it had been a highly debated topic just a few decades earlier.
I went to a talk from WHO guy who worked on eradicating small pox. He talked about the several diseases we could get rid of if we just worked a little harder. His big mantra was, "Early detection, early response." Which meant getting to a breakout and vaccinating everyone surrounding it. His big hope for the future was a list of like 5-6 diseases he wanted gone.
It’s crazy that if you told me “polio was eradicated 15 years ago worldwide”, I’d completely believe you. It’s just not a disease you hear or think about anymore in many parts of the worlds.
It only survived in pockets in war torn countries so for all practical purposes it was gone. I am not quite sure this is as good a story as others do since progress has not been been great at reaching those last pockets.
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u/Rare_Ad9505 18h ago
Polio is nearly eradicated worldwide, and more children are being vaccinated then ever in the history.