Someone should tell Martin about *checks notes* the entire history of infectious disease Could start with leprosy and work his way forward from therepic.twitter.com/KDMrOy12CW
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Your first tweet is absolutely not true.
During the plagues, cities and neighborhoods were closed and people were prohibited from leaving. Whoever broke these rules and infected outside areas was outlawed.
Is he a tech bro rather than a biologist?
So I am puzzled here. This was a very stupid take. Yet everyone dunking on him weirdly seems to promote his ultimate point, which seems to be that blaming the carriers doesn't lead to a good direction. It hasn't, clearly, in the past, is this time different?
Thats too many levels of thinking for Twitter. 

I agree, he is historically completly wrong, but it is also true, as you said, that blameing someone is rarely an effetive means of change.
Just before covid, there was measles. Looking for the french tourists family who brought it in south america (Costa rica), I found another tourist who did the same in Australia. So like, 2 years ago, we blamed people for vax preventable disease.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/measles-costa-rica-french-tourist-boy-anti-vax-vaccination-who-global-health-threat-infection-mmr-a8794256.html …
And let’s not forget Typhoid Mary
*cough* *cough* don’t forget about Tuberculosis *cough* (not suggesting one should ‘blame’ but we sure do take reasonable precautions like isolation until not contagious / mask wearing for other illnesses)
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