https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1430184119749681153?t=nlLy24ba5AG35NqLHeGibw&s=19
The tweet has already been sufficiently dunked on, but it's just too mind-numbingly dumb I can't ignore it. What happens to a person's brain to make them forget the AIDS crisis, or the story of Typhoid Mary, or idk, most diseases?
One of the few tweets by a medical professional that can be disproved by reading the bible
The pure stupidity at the intersection of takes about covid, takes by professors overly confident in their intellect, and twitter takes that were probably only thought about for 30 seconds before posting. Delicious.
It's pretty cool you can teach at Harvard without ever studying history
In the bible, women on their period needed to sleep in separate tents because they were just such heckin adventurers! They loved to go on hikerinos!
Leviticus 15:
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When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. 20 "Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.Israelites dealt with this by having them live in a tent.
P sure some weird Christians in the US with the resources to do so have like a small cabin for the same purpose.
We should blame them though. Or at least, we should blame the boss for not letting them have sick days.
In a lot of eastern countries, it's standard practice to wear a face mask when sick. It's just common courtesy
Of course! A ton of people act like germ theory was invented by Dr. Fauci in April of last year, we've known how to deal with infectious diseases for over a century
The word "quarantine" has etymological roots in banning sailors infected with the black plague from leaving the ship into populated areas for 40 days.
Ah yes, “quar” should’ve told me it had something to do with 4
He's right, although I don't know if it's for the right reasons. Fixating on individual recalcitrance distracts from the systemstic failures at the root of the US failed pandemic response. The widespread distrust of a free vaccine and/or disbelief that it's really free, for example, is a belief beaten into the American poor by the privatized health system. Not to mention the abortive attempts at lockdowns that were met with fury by businesses (and some workers, to be fair) that lose out in that scenario, as well as all the treat-dependent hogs.
tracking chips in the syringes
Oh noooo, the feds will see how boring and routine my empty life is!
you are allowed to be mad about individual people and the systemic reason this pandemic has been so badly mishandled.
Sure but it's good to remember that this is the oldest trick in the book, taking systematic failures directly resulting from the work of the capitalist class and making them solely a matter of individual responsibility.
Also finding ways to offload the systemic failure to minority and marginalized communities. Ken Paxton blamed unvaccinated African Americans and Gregg Abbott has been blaming Mexicans at the border, for covid surges.
This guy teaches medicine at Harvard and doesn't know about the AIDS crisis.
or what happened to the people that were blamed for spreading plague in medieval europe (i.e. the jews)...
In a vacuum, yes you cannot blame your relatives or a friend or a coworker for doing what is basically an act of nature (getting an immune response to a disease and shedding viral/bacterial load).
But we don't live in a vacuum and we have developed public health procedures and we live in large communities with people we don't truly know. So when a pandemic occurs and people decide to behave recklessly because they only think about themselves, you have every right to be upset.
Just seems a bit dumb to blame people who don't understand germ theory for failing to adopt behaviors of those who do.
But then Harvard Medical School Guy doesn't seem capable of grasping germ theory right now, so maybe he just needs a better education or something.
Well, he is also ahistorical because undesirables have been blamed for anything from infertility to plagues, bad crops, nasty weather, etc. Even when people knew about germ theory or not.
It's just that now undesireables are nasty, predominantly white, people trying to get others killed.
At least he realized it was a brain fart lol
But he insists on his stupid idea so...
