#ignazsemmelweis — Public Fediverse posts

"At stake is not merely the technical distinction between a loose fitting medical mask and a respirator certified to FFP2 or FFP3 standards in the United Kingdom or N95 standards in the United States.

At stake is whether health systems have been knowingly deploying substandard protective equipment in environments where exposure to lethal airborne disease is foreseeable, continuous and unavoidable.

Under international labour law, this question is already answered."

I wish I could bottle this article and pour it into a water pistol so that I could aim it at doctors and nurses who come near me unmasked or wearing baggy blues.

https://www.businessupturn.com/trade-policy/why-the-who-respirator-revolt-could-reshape-global-health-governance/624/

#Covid19 #CovidIsAirborne #MAskUp #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #DropletDogma #IgnazSemmelweis

> Ignaz Semmelweis was another pioneer of disease transmission who was also initially ignored as having proposed things too radical for the establishment of the time to accept. Working in Vienna in 1847, he showed that handwashing greatly reduced deaths by childbed fever in a maternity clinic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.13070#ina13070-bib-0003
#IgnazSemmelweis #Semmelweis #HandWashing #ChildBedFever

'The rectifying of the mind is realized when the thoughts are made sincere.' And the thoughts are sincere, when no self-deception is allowed, and we move without effort to what is right and wrong, 'as we love what is beautiful, and as we dislike a bad smell'

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3100/pg3100-images.html

#Sincerity #BadSmellSincerity #JamesLegge #Confucius #TheGreatLearning from #IARichards #PracticalCriticism p272 came to mind with #IgnazSemmelweis battling cadaver smells on #DoctorsHands

> The mystery was solved: maternal mortality from childbed fever was higher in the First Division because medical students and physicians participated in autopsies but midwives did not, and, therefore, mothers in labor were examined more frequently by attendants whose hands were contaminated by cadaveric particles than mothers in the Second Division.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333090/

#IgnazSemmelweis #DoctorsHands

> Semmelweis was puzzled that puerperal fever was rare among women giving street births. "To me, it appeared logical that patients who experienced street births would become ill at least as frequently as those who delivered in the clinic. [...] What protected those who delivered outside the clinic from these destructive unknown endemic influences?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
#Semmelweis #IgnazSemmelweis #AntisepticPractice #PerperalFever