Be nice if that lead to the (for the wrong reasons) wide implementation of N95s and HEPA filters to protect the populace from the noxious fumes and pestilential vapours, but when push comes to shove between neoliberalism and crankery, the neoliberalism always gets its way

Love to have the guy deciding if I get healthcare or not praying to Zeus to cure his bad humors.

Marble statue avatar reply guys literally want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting

“The real debate here is whether we can solve public health problems by developing treatments like vaccines, antibiotics, or other drugs? Or whether we will solve these problems by strengthening people’s immune systems through healthier habits?” says Gregg Girvan, a resident fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Washington think tank. “And my response is, ‘Why can we not acknowledge that there is truth in both positions?’”

Unfathomably dumb. I have grown little bacteria on plates and in broths. I’ve used cleaners and checked that they stopped growing. You can grow some tomorrow! They sell agar pre-poured on Amazon. The idea that you have to find some middle ground between the science that landed a clean shot against a horseman of the apocalypse and some asshole is absurd. If you want to help people, you’d consider the damage that miasma does TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE WHO STUDY IT.

cool so we’re going to regulate mass polluters like the oil industry right?

Cool cool I hope he finally dies of his imbalanced humors. I hope he finds a doctor to measure his skull, call him big strong, then prescribe him mercury to replace the blood he had leeched