• coldest inauguration since Reagan

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 16 12:53:12 2025
    The forecast for the inauguration has trended COLDER and temps may
    only be in mid-20s for swearing in with wind chills in teens. Probably
    will be coldest inauguration since Reagan in 1985!

    https://bsky.app/profile/capitalweather.bsky.social/post/3lfryump6nb2h

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Jan 17 02:53:34 2025
    On 2025-01-16, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    The forecast for the inauguration has trended COLDER and temps may
    only be in mid-20s for swearing in with wind chills in teens. Probably
    will be coldest inauguration since Reagan in 1985!

    Shrinkage!

    The small dicked masses will struggle even more mightily to find their
    peckers.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Auric Hellman on Fri Jan 17 13:31:33 2025
    On 2025-01-17, Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Perhaps the American people will get lucky and Donald Trump will pull a William Henry Harrison; with the same results, of course.


    I had to actually look it up. Thanks for the nudge! I'm sure I must
    have learned this once, long ago.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#Death_and_funeral

    The interesting thing about this description of his illness and death, is all the ridiculous medical treatments they used for what we'd probably
    understand now as pneumonia -

    * laxative
    * mustard plaster to the stomach
    * bloodletting
    * etc.

    Also interesting is that, even as his health worsened, the press
    reported he was improving. So, couldn't trust the press back then,
    can't trust it now.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Fri Jan 17 13:40:25 2025
    On 2025-01-17, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    Also interesting is that, even as his health worsened, the press
    reported he was improving. So, couldn't trust the press back then,
    can't trust it now.

    Ha, also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Tippecanoe

    Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 seem to die in office.
    (Until they don't). Maybe the curse had an expiration date!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 17 10:26:42 2025
    On 17 Jan 2025 13:40:25 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 seem to die in office.

    If anti-viral drug was not available (just came out then), he most
    likely would have died.

    Fred Trump most likely had a better diet than Don

    "Trump's father died with Alzheimer disease at age 93. His mental
    status was in decline for at least seven years before then."

    Don - 78 years June 14, 1946...and if his temper condition exists, a
    good chance of stroking out anytime.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 17 10:16:06 2025
    On 17 Jan 2025 13:31:33 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    So, couldn't trust the press back then,
    can't trust it now.

    Who was feeding the press?

    Who wants now to feed the press?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 17 20:45:50 2025
    NO CROWD-SIZE COMPARISONS THIS TIME

    Severe cold forces Trump inauguration indoors, first time in 40 years

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-inauguration-be-moved-indoors-due-cold-temperatures-cnn-reports-2025-01-17/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jan 18 11:27:46 2025
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On 17 Jan 2025 13:40:25 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 seem to die in office.

    If anti-viral drug was not available (just came out then), he most
    likely would have died.

    Fred Trump most likely had a better diet than Don

    "Trump's father died with Alzheimer disease at age 93. His mental
    status was in decline for at least seven years before then."

    Don - 78 years June 14, 1946...and if his temper condition exists, a
    good chance of stroking out anytime.


    Let's hope not! We must pray for the health of our immortal leader of the
    white race!

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jan 18 11:30:05 2025
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    NO CROWD-SIZE COMPARISONS THIS TIME

    Severe cold forces Trump inauguration indoors, first time in 40 years

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-inauguration-be-moved-indoors-due-cold-temperatures-cnn-reports-2025-01-17/


    That's for nerds! There will be cold comparisons! This is for men!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Jan 18 09:33:42 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:30:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    That's for nerds!

    Let's add up the "bad" omens:

    1. NO CROWD-SIZE COMPARISONS THIS TIME

    2. Bitterly Cold Inauguration Days - A Bad Omen For An Administration https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/01/17/bitterly-cold-inauguration-days-a-bad-omen-for-an-administration/

    3. US Flag at half-staff

    4. MLK Day coincides with Trump's inauguration, a rare occurrence https://www.reuters.com/world/us/civil-rights-leaders-mobilize-ahead-trumps-inauguration-mlk-day-2025-01-18/

    5. Supreme Court (9/0) upholds law to force TikTok sale or ban - Trump
    wanted to ban the app through executive action in his first term, but
    now, he has to show his "deal making" cards. In your face, Trump...

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jan 18 18:00:21 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:30:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    That's for nerds!

    Let's add up the "bad" omens:

    1. NO CROWD-SIZE COMPARISONS THIS TIME

    Who cares? It's about the temperature! Coldest coronation day wins! Good
    omen!

    2. Bitterly Cold Inauguration Days - A Bad Omen For An Administration https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/01/17/bitterly-cold-inauguration-days-a-bad-omen-for-an-administration/

    See 1.

    3. US Flag at half-staff

    This is because of Xidens choice. Just a sore loser.

    4. MLK Day coincides with Trump's inauguration, a rare occurrence https://www.reuters.com/world/us/civil-rights-leaders-mobilize-ahead-trumps-inauguration-mlk-day-2025-01-18/

    This is a good omen! Gives the negros double occasion for celebration!
    After all, a majority of negroes voted for Trump!

    5. Supreme Court (9/0) upholds law to force TikTok sale or ban - Trump
    wanted to ban the app through executive action in his first term, but
    now, he has to show his "deal making" cards. In your face, Trump...

    This is ok.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Jan 18 14:43:01 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:00:21 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    5. Supreme Court (9/0) upholds law to force TikTok sale or ban - Trump
    wanted to ban the app through executive action in his first term, but
    now, he has to show his "deal making" cards. In your face, Trump...

    This is ok.

    No...Here's the problem..."ByteDance investor Jeff Yass tops 2024
    donor list with TikTok under fire....Yass is estimated to have a 7%
    personal stake in ByteDance, roughly the equivalent of $21 billion,
    according to the Wall Street Journal." https://www.axios.com/2024/03/21/tiktok-jeff-yass-bytedance-donor-conservative

    But now, "Trump says he will 'most likely' delay TikTok ban
    temporarily, but has not made final decision"

    Jeff Yass has a reasoning problem....US will not ban it if managed in
    the US, but he says "TikTok is about free speech and innovation, the
    epitome of libertarian and free market ideals. The idea of banning
    TikTok is an anathema to everything I believe."

    Jeff is blowing smoke....

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Jan 18 17:43:52 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:00:21 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    This is ok

    This too?

    <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreifksiwctnbae4s66tgzsqg6nfuzlm7g56lbr4kgaatdmwoosufnmy@jpeg>

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 18 18:27:47 2025
    On 17 Jan 2025 13:40:25 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Maybe the curse had an expiration date!


    The Capitol Rotunda has been traditionally used for presidents lying
    in state.

    This Monday, it will be used for a president lying to *all* states.

    https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3lfybqgjsfs2q

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sat Jan 18 20:30:44 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:30:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    There will be cold comparisons!

    Tim Walz @Tim_Walz

    There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

    https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1880307929263534299

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 02:51:32 2025
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    The Capitol Rotunda has been traditionally used for presidents lying
    in state.

    This Monday, it will be used for a president lying to *all* states.

    https://robrogers.com/2025/01/07/lyung-in-state/

    https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3lfybqgjsfs2q


    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 11:53:42 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:00:21 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    5. Supreme Court (9/0) upholds law to force TikTok sale or ban - Trump
    wanted to ban the app through executive action in his first term, but
    now, he has to show his "deal making" cards. In your face, Trump...

    This is ok.

    No...Here's the problem..."ByteDance investor Jeff Yass tops 2024
    donor list with TikTok under fire....Yass is estimated to have a 7%
    personal stake in ByteDance, roughly the equivalent of $21 billion,
    according to the Wall Street Journal." https://www.axios.com/2024/03/21/tiktok-jeff-yass-bytedance-donor-conservative

    But now, "Trump says he will 'most likely' delay TikTok ban
    temporarily, but has not made final decision"

    Jeff Yass has a reasoning problem....US will not ban it if managed in
    the US, but he says "TikTok is about free speech and innovation, the
    epitome of libertarian and free market ideals. The idea of banning
    TikTok is an anathema to everything I believe."

    Jeff is blowing smoke....

    It is a very fascinating situation! Yes, from a libertarian point of view,
    in isolation from the world, free speech is king and no one should be
    censored.

    However, Titok is weaponized by china. US companies are not allowed free
    speech in china, tiktok is used to elevate the status of china, downplay
    their human rights atrocities, add to that, the asymmetry of US investors
    not being allowed to start and own (100%) companies in china, while
    chinese investors, and by extension, the chinese government, are allowed
    to buy and invest fully in other countries.

    From that point of view, banning tiktok, and chinese ownership is an act
    of self defense. Once china allows free investments, free speech, of
    course they will be granted the same rights abroad. If they censor, limit
    and weaponize their companies and platforms, of course they will be
    banned.

    Forget about russia, long term, china is the biggest threat to the free
    world.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 11:56:43 2025
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:30:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    There will be cold comparisons!

    Tim Walz @Tim_Walz

    There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

    https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1880307929263534299


    Are you swedish? I have killed many men throughout my life who gave me
    this response in sweden when I complained about the weather. ;)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sun Jan 19 06:38:38 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:56:43 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    Are you swedish?

    I like Swedish products:

    Hallberg-Rassy 69 - The Movie | Sailing and Walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-g0jbjOBs

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sun Jan 19 12:12:07 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:53:42 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    It is a very fascinating situation!

    SEE: <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreif5zwztanknb2carn4v4dpbucizhjbj7vsqj2iotuwdy2iufuipnq@jpeg>


    Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

    And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off
    this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has
    been putrid so far.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere on Sun Jan 19 12:09:08 2025
    On 19 Jan 2025 02:51:32 -0400, Mike Spencer
    <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

    The Capitol Rotunda has been traditionally used for presidents lying
    in state.

    https://robrogers.com/2025/01/07/lyung-in-state/

    Interesting, the Bluesky post came seven days later; but I've seen
    this behavior before, where what goes around can be modified by a
    different author later.

    On a different note in small towns/cities, and in social circles, what
    goes around can get twisted, for various reasons.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sun Jan 19 12:03:05 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:53:42 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    US companies are not allowed free speech in china

    Of course they are if they say the glass is 1/2 full, rather than 1/2
    empty.

    Correct speak is always allowed.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 23:10:52 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:56:43 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    Are you swedish?

    I like Swedish products:

    Hallberg-Rassy 69 - The Movie | Sailing and Walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-g0jbjOBs


    Oh... do you have one? Are you a sailor? As for swedish products that keep international standards I guess Morakniv is probably one of my favourites!
    =) Amazing that they still manage to be competitive and still manufacture
    them 100% in sweden!

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 23:13:58 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:53:42 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    It is a very fascinating situation!

    SEE: <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreif5zwztanknb2carn4v4dpbucizhjbj7vsqj2iotuwdy2iufuipnq@jpeg>


    Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

    And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off
    this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has
    been putrid so far.


    Beautiful! He is a shrewd and powerful business man! You are lucky to have
    him lead your country to greatness once more! =D I wish sweden could
    become a US state. Everything would then become better! He could send his deportation squad to the suburbs in Malmö, Gothenburg and Sweden and send
    home 100s of thousands of crazy arabians who enjoy burning cars! =)

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jan 19 23:11:59 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:53:42 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    US companies are not allowed free speech in china

    Of course they are if they say the glass is 1/2 full, rather than 1/2
    empty.

    Correct speak is always allowed.


    Haha... good point! ;)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Sun Jan 19 18:42:06 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:10:52 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    Oh... do you have one? Are you a sailor?

    No, but I have been sailing....

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jan 20 10:41:31 2025
    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:10:52 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    Oh... do you have one? Are you a sailor?

    No, but I have been sailing....


    Do you have an anchor tattoo and a parrot? That would be awesome!!

    I have a relative who was a captain on a commercial fishing boat (I
    think). He was always drinking heavily when he was working. When he
    retired, he sobered up and became a really nice and extrovert guy.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 14:00:50 2025
    D wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:10:52 +0100, D <nospam@example.net>
    wrote:

    Oh... do you have one? Are you a sailor?

    No, but I have been sailing....

    Do you have an anchor tattoo and a parrot? That would be
    awesome!!


    ... and a wooden leg!

    They all had wooden legs didn't they?

    :-)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 08:50:38 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:00:50 GMT, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
    wrote:

    Do you have an anchor tattoo and a parrot? That would be
    awesome!!


    ... and a wooden leg!

    They all had wooden legs didn't they?

    That's old school, now it's a AI prosthetic leg now

    The Utah Bionic Leg uses custom-designed force and torque sensors as
    well as accelerometers and gyroscopes to help determine the leg's
    position in space. Those sensors are connected to a computer processor
    that translates the sensor inputs into movements of the prosthetic
    joints. Based on that real-time data, the leg provides power to the
    motors in the joints to assist in walking, standing up, walking up and
    down stairs, or maneuvering around obstacles. The leg's "smart
    transmission system" connects the electrical motors to the robotic
    joints of the prosthetic. This optimized system automatically adapts
    the joint behaviors for each activity, like shifting gears on a bike.

    https://www.price.utah.edu/2022/10/05/utah-bionic-leg-2

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Jan 20 21:59:32 2025
    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

    D wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:10:52 +0100, D <nospam@example.net>
    wrote:

    Oh... do you have one? Are you a sailor?

    No, but I have been sailing....

    Do you have an anchor tattoo and a parrot? That would be
    awesome!!


    ... and a wooden leg!

    They all had wooden legs didn't they?

    :-)

    This is the truth!! =)

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Thu Jan 23 11:28:48 2025
    On 1/17/2025 8:31 AM, Retrograde wrote:
    On 2025-01-17, Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:
    Perhaps the American people will get lucky and Donald Trump will pull a
    William Henry Harrison; with the same results, of course.


    I had to actually look it up. Thanks for the nudge! I'm sure I must
    have learned this once, long ago.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#Death_and_funeral

    The interesting thing about this description of his illness and death, is all the ridiculous medical treatments they used for what we'd probably
    understand now as pneumonia -

    * laxative
    * mustard plaster to the stomach
    * bloodletting
    * etc.

    The Wiki article later mentioned that the White House water supply was
    likely tainted by sewage.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Thu Jan 23 10:52:53 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:28:48 -0500, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    The Wiki article later mentioned that the White House water supply was
    likely tainted by sewage.

    In earlier days before public water works, hand-dug cisterns were
    used to store water, and many/all were filled by rainwater via house's
    gutters.

    Out-houses were placed somewhere near a home/etc. I have no idea if a
    sealing compound was used on cisterns and out-house's pits back then.

    I have no idea how White House's water/sewer systems were setup.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Fri Jan 24 07:21:57 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:28:48 -0500, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    The Wiki article later mentioned that the White House water supply was
    likely tainted by sewage.

    Draining the swamp

    How sanitation fought disease long before vaccines or antibiotics

    In an earlier post, I outlined our main weapons against infectious
    disease, including vaccines, antibiotics, antiseptics, pest control, sanitation, and general hygiene. These technologies (in a broad sense,
    even hand-washing is a technology) have largely eliminated lethal
    diseases such as smallpox, malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, and polio,
    at least in the developed world.
    ...
    ...
    I was surprised to learn that sanitation efforts began as early as the 1700s--and that these efforts were based on data collection and
    analysis, long before a full scientific theory of infection had been
    worked out. James Riley, in "Insects and the European Mortality
    Decline", writes

    In the later decades of the seventeenth and early decades of the
    eighteenth century, a number of internationally renowned physicians … formulated specific measures of intervention. Relying on Hippocratic
    tradition, specifically, on its suggestion that endemic and epidemic
    diseases are caused by forces in the environment, and influenced by
    Renaissance efforts at urban sanitation, these physicians proposed to
    discover the meteorological and topographical forces that might be
    blamed for the onset of epidemics. Toward this end, they and their
    followers embarked on a vast campaign to assemble qualitative and
    quantitative data about epidemics, climate and weather, geographical
    and topographical signs, and other features of the habitat. Their aim
    was to find conjunctures or correlations in the data, occasions when
    epidemics occurred after the same complex of environmental forces.
    Early signs of such a complex would offer warnings and allow the
    adoption of measures of prevention and avoidance. This body of medical
    theory failed to produce a coherent list of correlations, but it did
    provide a specific body of measures of avoidance and prevention.

    In particular, they proposed (each bullet quoted from the article):

    to drain swamps, bogs, moats, and other sites of standing water
    to introduce hydraulic devices that would circulate water in
    canals and cisterns
    to flush refuse from areas of human habitation
    to ventilate living quarters and meeting places and to burn sulfur
    sticks or apply other insecticidal measures in houses, hospitals,
    prisons, meeting halls, and ships
    to inter corpses outside the city
    and by other measures, including refuse burial, to detach
    humankind from organic waste

    These reforms were implemented starting in the 1740s, some by local
    and central governments, others by "humanitarians acting on private initiative".

    https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp

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