A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico’s expense, eh?

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    23 hours ago

    Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?

    I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.

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      21 hours ago

      Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.

      The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.

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        14 hours ago

        And the guy who suggested germs exist (cadaver particles) was locked up in an insane institution, where he died.