In all historical periods people tend to adapt to diseases and causes of death that were familiar and unchanging part of everyone’s experience and with which they grew up. /1
Only sudden crises in mortality, especially if they bear a foreign label (French pox, Asiatic cholera, Spanish flu) inspire terror. /2
#IrvingLoudon a medical historian
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#IrvingLoudon a medical historian
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One of the pillars that belief in Medicine rests on is imaginary control of childbirth. We collectively believe that women died in birth right and left. Importantly that women themselves were terrified of childbirth. /3
Yet women’s PERCEPTION of death was not ruled by abstract maternal mortality rates (MMR) but rather by the number of women dying in childbirth locally as known by word of mouth couple with perception of death WITHIN THE CONTEXT of the numbers of women dying of other causes. /4
While we are led to believe women were mortified to die on birth, women back in the day didn’t think of it as an inherently lethal event. Just as you aren’t mortified to get into a car, they weren’t scared to birth, despite knowing women who died during childbirth. /5
Thinking about deaths in context. Untangling numbers (stats risk) vs perceptions (danger). /6 
Thinking of Covid, public perception of danger was high despite statistical risk of death was low overall and relatively low to other more common and lethal diseases. Individual perception of danger or risk varied. /7
Based on prior knowledge how medicine presents history, likely, Covid pandemic will be used in mainstream medical literature to reinforce magical powers of Medicine to harness death. /8
When you are driven by ideological agenda, facts don’t matter. “Science” doesn’t matter. What matters is propaganda. You can lie your way till the lie becomes some semblance of truth.
When you discover one big lie, rest assured it’s not the only one. /9
When you discover one big lie, rest assured it’s not the only one. /9
You can manufacture crisis, then use technology and expertise to fix it, giving you perception that you were in danger but Medicine saved you to reinforce your faith. Knowledge will be suppressed to prevent you from questioning belief in Medicine (science, technology, state). /10
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