I borrowed this from Andrea Junker at BlueSky:
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
- Chickenpox
- Diphtheria
- Measles
- Pertussis
- Pneumococcal Infection
- Polio
- Tetanus
- Typhoid
- Yellow Fever
- Smallpox
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER:
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I don’t want to be a pedant and I realize language changes over time, but the use of “decimate” to mean “completely destroy” will never stop annoying me. It probably would annoy me less if the word itself didn’t have its numerical meaning on its face.
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if I had the time I would go through your post and edit out every tenth word.
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That’s decimating
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FLERP
You are correct.
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From MW online dictionary:
“The connection between decimate and the number ten harks back to a brutal practice of the army of ancient Rome. A unit that was guilty of a severe crime (such as mutiny) was punished by selecting and executing one-tenth of its soldiers, thereby scaring the remaining nine-tenths into obedience. The word comes from Latin decem, meaning “ten.” Decimate strayed from its “tenth” meaning and nowadays refers to the act of destroying or hurting something in great numbers.
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Benigne facis!
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Well done??? (I don’t know Latin and I tried to look it up but it didn’t come up as a phrase. Help me out.
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For the list below prayer, each pandemic in Christian countries since 380 CE up to the birth of modern vaccines should be listed by death count.
Pandemics That Changed History: Timeline
That would start with the 541 A.D. Justinian Plague. Recurrences over the next two centuries eventually killed about 50 million people, 26 percent of the world population.
1350: The Black Death responsible for the death of one-third of the world population.
1492: The Columbian Exchange
Following the arrival of the Spanish 1492: The Columbian Exchange
Following the arrival of the Spanish in the Caribbean, diseases such as smallpox, measles and bubonic plague were passed along to the native populations by the Europeans. With no previous exposure, these diseases devastated indigenous people, with as many as 90 percent dying throughout the north and south continents.
There’s more. Too many. I don’t have the time to list them all. Click that link up there and have a look.
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In 1833, The cholera swept through my county, taking about a third of the population of the county seat, including Daniel Turrentine, a noted silversmith. The same disease reared its head on a boat in 1846 as it traveled up the Missouri River, wiping out the Mandan and Arikria and reaching into Blackfoot country. A trapper described how he was lost and was immediately terrified to discover that he had walked upon a Blackfoot village.!Then he realized that the entire village was dying, with sick people crawling out of the tent circles toward water.
The history of disease is fascinating and is far more important than we give it time. I suggest Rats, Lice, and History, by Hans Zinser
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RFK will write a new chapter
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God–or someone–help us.
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Lloyd,
You may have noticed that our prolific troll returned. He changes his IP and name on every attempt to post stupid pro-Trump comments. I should leave them stand so everyone can see his stupidity. He used to be Ragsnarbut. He’s come up with dozens of different names since I blocked him. I blocked him not because he was pro-Trump but because he said the same things over and over.
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Cute, but hardly complete. The second M and the R of MMR spring immediately to mind – mumps and rubella (German measles). And although not immunization as such, what about the tremendous inroads we’ve made against HIV-Aids?
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William, you are right.
One of USAID’s most successful programs was vaccinating people against AIDS. 25 million lives have been saved.
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The new GOP opposition (PEPFAR was a creation of G.W. Bush) to these programs is both heartless and idiotic. They can’t understand why it might be in America’s interest to help Africans. Morons.
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