• Mikina@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    People were dying en-masse because you had doctors not washing their hands when moving from autopsies to giving birth.

    No one was aware about the germs that are causing this. It still killed people.

    This is true for most of the early medicine/illneses/hygiene, this was just an example I remember. Especially in regards to germs and bacteries, the humanity wasn’t even close to getting it right.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Perhaps I just confabulated all that, and your comment. Perhaps in the process, I manifested the history therein described.

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        5 hours ago

        The primordial Universe itself may have only been possible with an observer. No Big Bang, no primitive Earth, no organisms and evolution without the All-Seeing-Eye that has allowed our Universe to exist.

        Haha, I wouldn’t put my faith on this, but still fun and disturbing to think about…