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Goodeye8@piefed.social 17 hours agoAn 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.
It’s rare because we have higher hygiene standards
This is an acceptable oversimplification.
Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.
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.
13igTyme@piefed.social 17 hours ago
If you don’t understand how the basic concept of washing your hands (which at the time was just splashing your hands in dirty water) stems from having a higher understanding better quality standards of living, like not sleeping with the farm animals for warmth, shitting in the street, or bathing in dirty water, all of which can cause rats, fleas, and ticks to rampage an area, then that’s on you.
I can’t teach you cause and effect of dealing with a long term systemic issue caused by a multitude of factors and variables.
homes@piefed.world 16 hours ago
This is supposition. If you have any reliable sources to back up these claims, please cite them.
13igTyme@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Holy shit you people are fucking stupid.
homes@piefed.world 14 hours ago
You did say that.
You did not provide any evidence to back up your claims.
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 hours ago
What you’re saying is B stems from A, and A causes C therefore we can say B causes C. But it is correlation, not causation and a pretty surprising thing to say