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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8389169" data-attributes="member: 19675">I’ve been reading blurbs here & there about how deeply some of this stuff goes.  It’s jaw dropping.Onesimus- a slave gifted to Cotton Mather (the one & only) by his congregants- is the one who talked about the African practice we call variolation as a ward against smallpox.  That helped Boston escape the worst ravages of an outbreak and made Ben Franklin a believer and was a factor in George Washington ordering his troops to be treated.  That set in motion a cycle of acceptance and pushback on the efficacy and purported dangers of public health anti-contagion efforts in the USA.Fast forward to today, and we’re definitely in one of the troughs.  As I learned today, the whole thing on ivermectin “ropeworms”* was presaged by people doing coffee enemas experiencing this effect YEARS ago.  They didn’t learn ir accept the truth then, and survived to pass this misinformation along to other benighted souls.Then there’s that whole disconnect of seeking treatment for COVID symptoms from the very people who were not to be trusted on vaccinations.  And fighting- sometimes literally- the healthcare workers when the COVID diagnosis is delivered.* a reminder: “rope worms” are actually sloughed off intestinal lining</blockquote>