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#bubonic — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bubonic, aggregated by home.social.

  1. There is social pressure to disregard safety protections such as wearing a #mask or elbow bumping as opposed to shaking hands.

    It seems like a sort of tribal affirmation "I am not afraid of no stinking microbes and our friendship is worth more than any increment of risk this close contact entails".

    And with that, millions and millions of people have contracted #diseases including #bubonic #plague #smallpox #ebola #meningitis #polio #cholera #diptheria #pertussis #covid #influenza #pneumonia #tuberculosis #mpox #malaria #hepatitis

    Extra credit: which diseases in that list are NOT contracted by close contact?