SUD Harm Reduction and Recovery. Infection Prevention. Former OR and ED Nurse.
My views are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer or my family.
For most of human history, pandemics weren’t rare events.
Plague. Smallpox. Cholera. Influenza.
Entire generations erased without knowing why.
No vaccines. Just death.
What changed isn’t luck.
It’s science.
Romanticizing the past is easy
when you’ve never had to live in it.
@DrNeilStone When my Aunt died we inherited her family Bible. Births and deaths listed in the front. So many children died from diseases we can now vaccinate against. Why would anyone want to go backwards?
@MaraSchraag@histories_arch It was great in grilled cheese. We used it in school for home economics classes and my grandmother would get it from the Senior Center and freeze it.
Phenomenal breakthrough in HIV prevention. A single treatment every 6 months can completely prevent infection.
Brought to you by science.
Not wellness, raw milk, ivermectin, methylene blue or MAHA.
Science.