Geno Gaudet

Musician • Poet • Gamer • Manga Nerd • Disc Golfer •

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@lukaanimeme Humans are animals so I assume I'll get both powers with the red pill!

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

The most dangerous lie in human history isn’t about food.

It isn’t about medicine.

It is about sleep.

For 200,000 years, humans did not sleep 8 hours.

That number was invented in 1938 by a mattress company called Simmons Beautyrest.

Before that campaign, the average human slept in two shifts.

Historians call it “Biphasic Sleep.”

You would sleep for 4 hours, wake up for 2, then sleep for another 4.

During that 2-hour window, people would pray, have s*x, write, think, and connect with their families.

Some of the greatest works in human history were created in that sacred middle window.

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays between 1AM and 3AM during his second wake period.

Mozart composed entire symphonies in what he called “The God Hours.”

Then the Industrial Revolution needed workers on a fixed schedule.

You cannot run a factory on biphasic sleep.

So they hired a psychologist named Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman to “prove” that 8 consecutive hours was the biological standard.

He faked the studies.

He was funded entirely by the mattress industry.

And the medical establishment adopted his research without question because it aligned with the factory model.

They turned the most creative 2 hours of human consciousness into a “sleep disorder.”

They called it “Insomnia.”

They medicated it.

They gaslight an entire generation that 8 hours of continuous sleep was healthy.

They pathologized the exact window of consciousness that produced some of the greatest art, music, and literature in human history.

You are not an insomniac.

You are experiencing the most natural form of human consciousness.

And a mattress company convinced you it was a disease.

Stop medicating your genius.

Wake up at 2AM.

Write the thing.

The “God Hours” are calling.

✨🙌🏾💫

© Andre Gonzalves

[SHANKS @reddhairshanks]

1/9 🧵
One Piece isn’t about pirates chasing treasure.
It’s the most brutal love letter to freedom ever written and the scariest mirror to our real world. Most fans stop at “friendship and adventure.”
The ones who really get it realize Oda has been cooking a nuke for 27 years.

[Ƶ @archibaldxiv]

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@Rxpixel @chirno_helmet Here ya go pal

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@aaliyahvtuber_ https://t.co/BnXlkkthsU

[城川 草二 @SOUJIJP]

イーロンマスクの歴史的決断によって、日米のオールドメディアが、存在価値を失うかも知れない。日本と米国、英語圏の人たちの直接的な対話が促進され、メディアが隠していた情報も共有されることになり、メディアによる報道も世論操作も意味を持たなくなるかもしれない。シンギュラリティの始まりである。

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@nikutaberuru

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@DarthKirby009 @baldguy2310 @GaryVerseaqqe @pirooooon3 You're arguing with bots.

[Ƶ @archibaldxiv]

reclaiming your imagination is the first step to unlocking a world beyond your wildest fantasies

[Patriot🇺🇸Newswire @NewswirePatriot]

"God gave me strength, I couldn't let them folks die"

16 yr old Corion Evans was hanging out with his friends when he saw a car PLUNGE into the Pascagoula River in Mississippi.

3 teenage girls began screaming for help as the car quickly sank.

Evans immediately sprang into action, diving in to rescue the girls.

When asked where his bravery came from, he replied "God gave me strength, I couldn't let them folks die."

Police Officer Gary Mercer assisted Evans with the rescue, but he began to drown as well when one of the panicking victims tried to pull him under.

Despite being out of breath with exhausted legs, Evans swam back AGAIN to rescue both the Officer and the 3rd teen girl.

Four people are alive today because a young man put the lives of others before his own.

He truly is a hero. 🎖

[DAT Ohaji First Son @tv_awarra]

@C_3C_3 Soon

[1776 America News @1776AmericaNews]

@elonmusk

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@White_Rabbit_OG

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@mrmikeMTL A mortician 😆

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@JbrandyOfficial It's tough to pick which one of my songs I think is best, but this one is definitely in the running.

https://t.co/KHY3I8r84u

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

@not_airspeed @learning_yohei We know you HAVE to say that. Otherwise your government will put you in jail 😂

[Geno Gaudet @GenoGaudet]

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