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homes@piefed.world 5 weeks agoBasically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.
That’s not how it was spread. It was spread by fleas and other blood to blood contact if the person had to bubonic plague and, in later stages, through the air in close contact via infectious respiratory droplets if the person had the pneumonic plague.
13igTyme@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
My comment was an over simplification. By having higher hygiene standards we reduced our contact with rats and other things that can carry it. It is essentially “We did A, which caused B through G, which lead to less of H.”
homes@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
Your comment was partially incorrect. I corrected you. Washing hands had little to nothing to do with it. You didn’t mention anything about rats or the fleas they carried, which were the primary carrier of the bubonic plague
13igTyme@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I implore you to understand what an over simplification statement mean in regard to a multi step process that took centuries of understanding what to do and not to do. What conditions are considered acceptable now vs 700 years ago and so on.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
An oversimplification doesn’t mean you get to make completely false statements. An oversimplification ignores other significant factors to end up with a simple statement that for the most part is true.
This is an acceptable oversimplification.
This is not because this is just factually wrong.
The latter is what is being corrected. Now apply your smartass education and understand when you’re wrong.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In an era of anti-vox bullshit, it’s not acceptable to be that incorrect in your “oversimplification”.
homes@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
I understand what oversimplification means. You do not seem to understand what “incorrect“ means.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hygiene literally means practices that maintain health. Saying “we are healthy by maintaining better hygiene” literally means “We maintained our health by engaging in practices that maintained our health.”