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[–] 20 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Your comment was partially incorrect. I corrected you. While it was a matter of hygiene, washing hands had little to nothing to do with it. You didn’t mention anything about rats or the fleas they carried, which were the primary carrier of the bubonic plague

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  • [+] -15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I implore you to understand what an over simplification statement mean in regard to a multi step process that took centuries of understanding what to do and not to do. What conditions are considered acceptable now vs 700 years ago and so on.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    An oversimplification doesn't mean you get to make completely false statements. An oversimplification ignores other significant factors to end up with a simple statement that for the most part is true.

    It's rare because we have higher hygiene standards

    This is an acceptable oversimplification.

    Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.

    This is not because this is just factually wrong.

    The latter is what is being corrected. Now apply your smartass education and understand when you're wrong.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If you don't understand how the basic concept of washing your hands (which at the time was just splashing your hands in dirty water) stems from having a higher understanding better quality standards of living, like not sleeping with the farm animals for warmth, shitting in the street, or bathing in dirty water, all of which can cause rats, fleas, and ticks to rampage an area, then that's on you.

    I can't teach you cause and effect of dealing with a long term systemic issue caused by a multitude of factors and variables.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    This is supposition. If you have any reliable sources to back up these claims that washing one’s hands had any actual or meaningful effect on the spread of the black plague, please cite them.

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