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CosmicQuantum42 t1_j52zof1 wrote

Maybe, maybe not.

All the same, if I ever go back in time to the Middle Ages I’m going to tell people to kill every single rat they ever see.

And boil all the water they use for any purpose, to the extent practical at least.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j53185v wrote

Why would they believe that what you are asking them would make any difference?

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CosmicQuantum42 t1_j5335ty wrote

Maybe they wouldn’t. They probably wouldn’t. Wouldn’t stop me from trying.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j53ukk9 wrote

Read up on Dr. Semmelweis, a Jewish doctor who first pushed hand washing in the hospitals.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ignaz-semmelweis-doctor-prescribed-hand-washing

No one accepted his findings. He went crazy

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CosmicQuantum42 t1_j53vcpf wrote

Yeah that wasn’t the best. Thanks for the link.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j540q3a wrote

Without statistics, a germ theory, and no microscope, it's not an easy sell

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