#Smallpox

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

We live at a very unusual time. We are among the very first generations who can make progress against large problems. If we want to make progress against the problems

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

#COVIDisAirborne. It always has been. 120 years we should have known this. Be generous say 80). We should have been prepared for it, but experts mangled the science so we

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Thanks JE! Up to date info, total weekly deaths, which are very close to normal for early Nov. I say again: you can’t have a lethal pandemic stalking the land

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

I want a COVID-19 vaccine more than anything. I am a huge believer in vaccines. I was always a casual believer, and then I read and learned more about the

Rachel Clarke

doctor_oxford

A visual argument for vaccines, in five tweets:1/ A ward of polio victims, incarcerated inside "iron lungs" in 1950s America. Many are children, their lungs paralysed, unable to breathe unaided.

Dr Kathleen Bachynski

bachyns

A striking photo of two boys from a 1901 medical textbook: “It’s an image of the consequences of being vaccinated versus not,” says Kathleen Bachynski... This photo was effective, she

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

It’s incredibly stupid to think if we simply released all restrictions, with COVID still abroad, that A) everybody would instantly go back outside B) mutation wouldn’t inevitable escape the vaccine

LANE COUNTY HUNGER STRIKE

eughungerstrike

Some thoughts and a plea: Vaccines in prisons, just like on the outside, are bandages upon systems that function through mass death of people who are disposable for and external

Suren

zeneraalstuff

Some factoids that would interest @sankrant - Calcutta Medical College began with 20 students being taught Western medicine in Bengali medium. Madhusudan Gupta, a Sanskrit student from a family of

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CemeteryClub

Today is #PotatoDay in ! Here’s the grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier in @PereLachaise1. A pharmacist who promoted the nutritional value of the potato, he hosted parties for the likes of

Genise Navidad

StevenGenise

Okay, a rant: The second part of this, the part where she explains that astronomy is an ancient science, is REALLY important. This falls under the myth category of “people

Alison Young

alisonannyoung

Many questions from WHO press conference on origins of pandemic, especially related to level of investigation at labs. Did they just ask questions + accept answers? Any in-depth scrutiny of

Amy Thunig

AmyThunig

“All the stories should be respected”Including the ‘settlers’ who perpetuated massacres? Incl the invaders who openly advocated that our people be killed & used as fertiliser for farming our stolen

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

New Book Review: Epidemics--Hate and Compassion From the Plague of Athens to AIDS https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/11/plagues-of-hate.htmlThis book is a historical survey of hundreds of epidemics from the 400s BC to the 1990s.

Nicky P

cravecreative

IMO...Corona Virus uses the same tactic as ClimateChange.1. Create a problem2. Instill fear in the population3. Offer a solution4. Demand funding5. Keep underlying agenda alive by fooling the public.How? You

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chapwelilthings

And canada already has a history of racism when it comes to disease. It was made illegal for an indigenous person to flee a hospital if they had TB, even

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