Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she believed was the very first sign of known civilization. The student expected her to talk about a hatchet, perhaps fishhooks, the bow and arrow...
Possibly a building structure, clay pots or grinding stones and knives.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had been broken and then healed.
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, your timely death is assured.
"You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal."
A broken thighbone that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
"Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts." Mead said.
We are at our very best when we truly help and serve others.
Be civilized. Be kind. Be helpful
My antivax MAGA dad listened to people like Mike Lee. My dad died from COVID during a time in the COVID pandemic when there were not enough ventilators to go around. Essentially my dad needlessly suffocated to death. But sure Mike, blame Anthony Fauci for Trump's poor leadership!
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1/ In January 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Her central concern was unusually specific:
Could Kennedy use the powers of HHS to reshape vaccine policy—and thereby increase the value of vaccine litigation from which he or his family might later benefit?
Eighteen months later, we can compare her predictions with what actually happened.
@SenWarren
The refrigeration trucks humming outside the hospital door, filled with bodies. The patients unable to say goodbye in person to their loved ones. Trump on the TV saying drink disinfectant, this will be over in a week, worrying more about being reelected than people dying.
@7BadOpinions@DrNeilStone@ScarlettGrace92 You'll see. These fake stories about efficacy are easy to fall for. It's real life: "The secret they don't want you to know" type of sales pitches. Old as the hills.
@PamelaG05998526@realRobertWhite@DrNeilStone He's human, a little crude. But humans can suffer River Blindness (a parasite spread by certain flies) and Ivermectin works. But it's not for Covid, as you are obviously aware.
@7BadOpinions@DrNeilStone@ScarlettGrace92 There will be all kinds of textbooks one day - and probably documentaries, movies and plays - about how the world dealt with the Covid pandemic. And there'll be content exposing and/or touching on the ivermectin-for-Covid scam.
Good morning. How did we get to the last day of July? Wow! Time flies whether you’re having fun or not. July has always been my favourite month of the year. This July was just awesome & thankful for every second of it!
Here’s a little collage summing up the month.
I've read this book "The Real Anthony Fauci" by RFK Jr
Its truly one of the worst books I've ever read in my life
It even includes doubts about germ theory
I kid you not
11/11
Congress has every right to investigate pandemic preparedness, NIH oversight, research safeguards and mistakes made during COVID.
But unresolved scientific questions are not evidence of personal criminality. Policy disagreements are not perjury. Scientific revision is not automatically deception.
Anthony Fauci’s record includes imperfect decisions made during unprecedented crises. It also includes lifesaving research, institutional reform, seven presidential administrations and 54 years devoted to protecting public health.
He deserves scrutiny proportionate to the evidence—and gratitude proportionate to the service.
7/11
There are legitimate questions about pandemic policy:
How uncertainty was communicated.
Why early mask messaging changed.
Whether schools remained closed too long.
How risky research and international grants should be supervised.
How agencies should acknowledge errors.
Serious oversight asks what was known, when it was known and who possessed decision-making authority.
It does not begin with “Fauci is guilty” and then search for a crime.
BREAKING: MAGA Congressman John McGuire says ivermectin should’ve been used in the COVID vaccine instead of “human fetus baby parts.” Ivermectin is not an effective treatment for COVID. Vaccines do not contain fetal tissues or cells. Insanity.