Dusty Bumz

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

My boyfriend sent me a screenshot and accidentally included the notification bar.
I noticed a message from a woman I’d never heard of.
I asked who she was.
He immediately deleted the screenshot.
Then he said, “Wrong person.”
That answer bothered me more than the message.
So I asked him to send it again.
He refused.
An hour later, the same woman messaged me directly.
She wrote:
“Please don’t tell him I contacted you.”
I stared at the screen.
Then another message appeared.
“I think you deserve to know what he’s been telling me about you.”
I opened the attachment.
It wasn’t a photo.
It was a screenshot of my boyfriend’s conversation with her.
And the first message said:

[Ike @LessonHist]

In the mid-1800s, a medical doctor working at the Vienna General Hospital noticed something strange...

Mothers were dying at three times the rate if they gave birth in the wards staffed by doctors, than in wards staffed by midwives.

Very strange...

What could be happening?

He decided to investigate...

After eliminating all other possibilities, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian, suspected that the medical students and doctors were transferring  "cadaverous particles" from the autopsy room to the maternity ward, causing the high mortality rate.

(You probably already get why because you are from the future, but unfortunately, his peers did not – leading to a sad ending)

This was before the understanding of germ theory and the importance of hygiene in preventing infections.

The midwives did not interact with cadavers, but the doctors and medical students did.

They would come from the autopsy room to deliver babies without washing their hands.

When Dr. Ignaz proposed hand-washing to his fellow physicians. He was greatly ridiculed for coming up with such a stupid idea.

How dare he remotely suggest that doctors were somehow responsible for deaths...

He tried really hard to champion this idea, but it conflicted with the accepted medical opinions of the day.

In 1865, he suffered a nervous breakdown, perhaps, from all the ridicule. And was placed in a  psychiatric hospital by his colleagues.

He was beaten by the guards and died two weeks later from injuries he sustained.

Only after Louis Pasteur's work provided strong evidence in support of germ theory did hand-washing begin to gain widespread acceptance.

Today, in modern medicine, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis is regarded as the father of hand hygiene.

But in his day, he was an irritant.

Lesson: When people ridicule your novel ideas, it doesn't mean you are stupid. Perhaps it's just meant for a different time or a different set of people.

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

––– Max Planck (German Physicist)

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@AnwarSidi Terribly unfortunate. May he rest I peace.

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@OmbetaC Absolutely!

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@Moha001_Onyango This is only useful for its deterrent value. Na liwe funzo kwa wengine.

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@ahmednasirlaw Based on what statistics?

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@gachoki_munene @AtikaBenjamin @IEAKwame @KRACare @KRACorporate @KenyasOmbudsman @ira_kenya That @ira_kenya is the most useless organisation. Worse probably than @KRACare and @KRACorporate. They do not reply to or even acknowledge mail. I do not know who they serve. Some of these organisations have no reason whatsoever to be in existence.

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@ahmednasirlaw @Team_Havi @NelsonHavi @lawsocietykenya Having is the most serious LSK President since.......yourself!

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@_DaisyReign @NelsonHavi You are overthinking this! Wachana na el-presidente!

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

Right in front of his host, H.E UHURU Hon Raila REFUSES to greet Hon Musyoka...BAD BLOOD! @makaumutua

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@Mr_Guantai Do us proud sir!

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

Kenyan Politicians beware!

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

Iyho

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@JOHNKEVINMUU Very happy birthday cuz!

[Tundu Antiphas Lissu @TunduALissu]

The countdown to official declaration seems to be well underway. Military parade vehicles in the streets of Dar es Salaam.

[Dusty Bumz @dustybumz]

@DCI_Kenya @APSKenya 00