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Actually we DID. Tho' only for a little while. And the results were enormous. The B/Yamgata Influenza lineage appears to have gone extinct. The cool part is we weren't even trying to do anything with those specific efforts to affect influenza. All of which should encourage us to cooperate more.
Please give us more cool facts!
Doctor Ignaz Semmelweiss in the mid-1800s suggested that obstetricians should wash and sterilize their hands before attending their patients to reduce the chance of postpartum infection. He was rejected by the medical community, ridiculed by colleagues, and eventually locked in an asylum where he was killed.
We're sliding back in time.
That is far less cool.
But it's very interesting to think where we would be technologically and socially if humans weren't such assholes
Semmelweiss is also partially responsible for the widespread rejection of his findings. He basically called doctors who did not follow his advice murderers which naturally didn't help his popularity. Antagonising someone who you are trying to convince usually just entrenches their opinions further.
https://www.wikipedia.org/
also for the strong of mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
As a child, once I learned to read, I started to really learn. And naturally shared all the fun facts with most anyone who would listen. I thought I would write a book of fun facts, but then someone invented the Intarwebs. I even thought I would narrow things down and just write 'Bandana, 1001 Uses' , but there was no point. (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bandana+uses+list&ia=web)
Why the change of heart at tha last sentence?
LoL, not an English major. Edit...