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"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

when i say "romanticise the ordinary" i don't mean "hide all aspects of your life that do not fit under some kind of aesthetic" but rather "strive to find beauty in all the little things because i promise you, happiness can be found everywhere"

The story of Ignaz Semmelweis, or: time is a flat fucking circle

Back in the early 1800s, needless to say, a lot of the precautions physicians take nowadays... weren't a thing. Hospitals kinda did whatever they wanted.

A Hungarian doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis, had noticed some patterns at one clinic in his area, I.E., doctors handling corpses (since, well, medical specialties weren't really much of a thing back then either) and then helping deliver babies. Women would become septic and die at rates estimated to be around 10%. Women were so afraid of this clinic that they would give birth in the streets rather than go there.

Observing the two nearby clinics, Sammelweis eventually developed a theory that some kind of contamination (germ theory wouldn't be accepted until Pasteur and Koch expanded on Sammelweis's work) from the corpses was sickening the women. He suggested doctors wash their hands after handling corpses. He had the doctors at the clinic wash their hands, and maternal mortality rates dropped to be comparable to the other nearby clinic. Surely the man was going to be rewarded for such a breakthrough discovery that was going to save women's lives?

Naturally, the man lost his job instead, because we live on Earth and humans are fucking shitty about 75% of the time. The hospital rolled back the changes he implemented, resulting in Sammelweis becoming increasingly angry in his attempts to make them, you know, stop murdering women through negligence. He also was ridiculed by all his colleagues and so-called friends and family, including his wife. He was forced to move to escape the harassment. The strain of all of this took a toll on him, and then he was committed to an asylum. There, he was beaten by the guards until he died of septic shock, much the same as his obstetrics patients had.

Sammelweis wouldn't be the first or the last person to die being ridiculed by the medical profession, with a vindication that would come far too late.

And now what do we have in the 2020s?

A lot of shit that's more of the exact same, but most notably people who take risks against COVID being told they're "addicted to wearing masks" and "suffering COVID-related anxiety and paranoia" for trying to avoid contracting a potentially lethal and almost certainly disabling virus.

Washing hands after handling a corpse and before helping deliver a baby should be obvious. Wearing a mask to help limit the spread of a debilitating virus should be common sense.

Common sense wasn't common enough to save Ignaz Sammelweis from being murdered in an asylum and his patients from being murdered by negligence, and it won't be enough to save thousands of people, particularly the disabled and chronically ill, from being murdered by negligence either.

Doctors really don't like being told they're wrong, and selfish people really don't like being told they should do literally anything, no matter how trivial, to help others, and when you tell a selfish doctor they're wrong for refusing to take basic precautions for the good of their patients, it's doubly bad. (And that's not even getting into the anti-maskers who aren't physicians).

Anyway, time is a flat circle and as long as this level of institutional power is baked in to quench the spread of new ideas, shit like this is going to keep happening.

I'm both at the same time.

a creature can be a girl. …..And! as well, a girl can be a creature