Thread by @HZiauddeen

🧵Ostensibly about necrotising fasciitis:

A flesh-eating bacterium is eating through your leg. This is a new experience. You have never seen bits of your leg disappearing like this. And the pain, well that's something else. And the smell, oh boy the smell.
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This is not looking too good but we don't know how it's going to go. Perhaps you should sit & watch carefully to figure out what's going to happen next. What can you infer from the mysterious ways in which the bacterium moves?
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Perhaps it's important to adopt the right attitude, one of caution but not rushing of to action. Perhaps fortitude may cause the bacterium to think again if this is perhaps the wisest strategy to pursue.
Read the entrails carefully (but quickly lest they become your own).
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Decide at which point you will act and what would be a proportionate action to take, decisive but not over the top, after all there is no shortage of legs and people have always lost legs.
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A different option might be to take into account what we know about these bacteria & what they do. The observed data tell you what the agent is (this bacterium) & what we know allows us to predict the course it will pursue wrt to your leg & the outcomes.

Just a thought.
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Ok, you now have enough data (and possibly less leg), so you can choose to act.
Just in time actually because another flesh eating bacterium (damn things must be everywhere, how else could it have got here?) has made a start on your other leg.
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Shall we just go with what we've learnt from the first leg?
No, you'd rather just watch and see what's happening to this leg? Just in case its different with this leg?
Ok, sure, it's your leg. But maybe stay from family members who have legs?
Ok, sure, they're your family.
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This thread has no relation to any global events from the last 2 years.
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