“Doctors believed that the bubonic plague was caused by “smells” in the air, so cleaning was always recommended. They had no idea that it was also a good way to get rid of the ticks and fleas that actually spread the contagion.”
Kind of like believing that the current plague wasn’t caused by the ChiComs and spread by infected folks coming here. So keep the borders open, let em all in and don’t use some promising new treatments to save lives.
Meanwhile wash your hands and disinfect surfaces to control the spread.
“Science” can sometimes be controlled by a bunch of folks that get it so deadly wrong.
Wait a minute. Perhaps she’s right. Perhaps I’ve been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a “scientific method”. Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance!...Naaaaaahhh!
-Theodoric of York