They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.
The US immigration act of 1907 signed by Teddy Roosevelt: ableist as hell. https://t.co/ficeXOImo5
Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"
— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) November 29, 2020
Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled people.
What caused a lot of those disabilities, you think?
They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.
https://t.co/o8Nn58RCn4
What it was, was contagious as hell. Hundreds of thousands of cases sprouted up everywhere, overnight. Entire cities shut down with everyone sick.
Not too infectious, not too deadly.
Bear in mind: 42.4°C is where fevers cause lasting neurological damage.
It banned anarchists, prostitutes, beggars, and people with epilepsy.
And then a few years later, he passed the above legislation with even more ableism.
The effect of half the population of a city getting a 42°C fever at once.
A generation later, the aftermath of the 1889 pandemic was still being felt.
It can result in ableist, eugenicist legislation decades later.
Survivors can be fucked over, decades later.
People who'd survived, but with chronic illness, faced a second epidemic a decade later.
Half a century later: https://t.co/0VC9MMKE3E in which the US gov infected Guatamalan prisoners and asylum patients with syphilis and tested quinine derivatives
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Here's a video on them:
They are interesting, but what is more interesting to me is Culture Bound Syndrome. https://t.co/hMKaApUMZn
Basically: mass psychogenic illness, and presentation of various mental illnesses, do not occur in a vacuum. Cultures shape them.
For instance, Koro.
There have been several mass outbreaks of men completely convinced their penises are shrinking, anchoring them with string at night so they don't get sucked back inside.
Almost all in Southeast
Here's a description of one outbreak in Hainan in 1984:
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What would that "look like" in reality?
So a massive adult film star in all his glory is included in an official FBI government filing
Perhaps the explanation is that Patriots are in control.
— David Burney (@jdburney1) February 6, 2021
\U0001f923\U0001f923\U0001f923\U0001f923 https://t.co/W3S8TgeY74
Hunter Biden's book is categorized as "Chinese
Patriots in control?
— David Burney (@jdburney1) February 6, 2021
\U0001f923\U0001f923\U0001f923\U0001f923 https://t.co/p0rEyfd2DW
TIME admits to "conspiracy" to "not rig, rather
TIME admits stolen election, with spin!
— David Burney (@jdburney1) February 6, 2021
"They weren't rigging the election, they were fortifying it."
Recognize the Ministry of Truth? How many things in the last few years have been redefined to be the opposite of reality?
Google the definition of "bigot" if you doubt me. https://t.co/CNU888fxr4 pic.twitter.com/UEhRBOtUB6
A "pillow guy" has military-grade intercepts detailing the IP addresses and device MAC IDs of EVERY incursion into every county in the
God bless the pillow manufacturer.
— David Burney (@jdburney1) February 6, 2021
The last 30 minutes details where every single incursion is recorded including IP and MAC addresses. 100% proof. pic.twitter.com/P5MVb1xGNC