Great to honor such people. But "he" alone didn't eradicate smallpox. It was a large number of people, organizations and sustained effort. https://twitter.com/gavinjohnadams/status/813873148714164224 …
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Our stories & movies center heroes—and many such people exist. Institutions, orgs and sustained collective work are less Hollywood-friendly.
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Take any heroic act that changed the world, you'll find an enormous amount of work, a lot of organization and even... bureaucracies. yeah.
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It may seem like what we need is more heroes. Most of the time, what's missing is the organizations for the "heroes" to work with.
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So it's great to honor people like Dr.Henderson—but also remember the massive organization he led. That's what worked. Not any person alone.
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By the way, a favorite quote from Brecht's "Life of Galileo."https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/352512388148375554 …
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"Never doubt that most hero narratives ignore the huge amount of collective effort by *tons* of people you never heard of"—not as quotable.
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Well said, tho worth noting: DAH himself took pains to recognize efforts of vaccinators etc, a big reason for effort's success.
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