400 years ago disease was known to be spread by air, miasmatic theory

Despite mounting evidence using microscopes, scientific opinion clung to miasmatic theory, Florence Nightingales TB wards were designed due to the bad air risk!

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#coronavirus #SARS_CoV_2 #COVID19 1847 Hungarian physician, Ignaz Semmelweis, discovered the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetric clinics

Germ theory was about to gain credence

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#SARSCoV2 #coronavirus #COVID19

This poem has been written for @DisabilityJ

It is designed to be read aloud, ideally by @jarvisguidedog et al

I'll add words below for #visuallyimparied and a video will go up shortly with a reading

#accesible #church #differingability #christianity #christmas #poetry #poem Heaven Obscured
Kneecapped, I’m kneecapped,
Here looking out,
Where few really see me,
Worshipping their doubts.

Just like you all, I have a father and mother,
I’ve been to school, been educated,
Played games with my sisters and brothers,
Yet here in church I feel denigrated!