SewBlue
My life and interests in bullet points.
- mother to a severely dyslexic kid. I do a lot of advocating, as severe dyslexics get shut out of the written internet so you do not see their viewpoints expressed.
- long covid suffer, but able to manage it
- Engineer, except math and science jokes.
- Crafter, mainly sewing. Love any kind craft and art.
- Lover of history and architecture
- old house lover, love my 90 year old house.
- black cat affectionado. So cats.
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Cake day: November 27th, 2022
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@Bee I really wish we would stop linking the discovery of germ theory to sanitary sewers.
Most major cities started installing sewers before germ theory. Remember - they put the handle back on the water pump during the crisis because they did not believe Dr Snow’s science. Most accounts leave out certain details.
Sewers were installed because cities stank without them and people believed diseases were related to smell. Miasma.
London’s big stink in the 1850’s kicked off sewer construction. Not cholera.
The superstition of missma happened to align with science to allow progress. It’s a bit revisionist to assume that level of money was spent because science showed it could help.
That golden era produced eugenics.