• LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 days ago

    ROFL What is this worm driven host doing?! Doesn’t the worm know that E. Coli infections can be deadly for the elderly? (Yes, I am being super facetious because reading about a Germ Theory Skeptic in the modern age has effectively broken my brain. The evidence that proves microorganisms like bacteria, parasites, and viruses are real is truly a massive amount. That’s a lot of knowledge that this dumb, incompetent human being is simply ignoring). Ugh, this wasn’t on my bingo card for this month. A small part of me hopes that E. Coli proves to him that germ theory isn’t something that can be dismissed, and he dies from his foolishness.

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      3 days ago

      It is crazy that the director of health services doesn’t believe in germ theory. I don’t care what your political beliefs are but the health secretary should have some medical background.

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        3 days ago

        He’s not there because of his qualifications, but his allegiance to tRump. Same with all of his picks. It’s all calculated so when they pull the noose tight no one will be able to stop 'em!

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      3 days ago

      Parasitized insects often manipulate it’s host to jump in the water so the parasite can release its eggs

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      2 days ago

      He isn’t even a miasma theory guy. He believes in terrain theory. The theory that disease only happens due to the body being malnutrished in some way or had a defect first. That germs and diseases are just opportunists more than anything else.

      None of this is true. He had rhe audacity to claim that the two girls in Texas who died from measles were malnourished and that is the main reason why measles happened and killed them. No amount of evidence presented by doctors to him that they were well nourished and were quite healthy before measles hit them was going to persuade him.