Your ignorance is a virus. Facts are antibiotics. They won’t cure you.

I’m taking a short break from journaling my stories of surviving the lock-down with my husband to talk about antibiotics.

Because the ignorance is reaching my maximum tolerance threshold, here.

Antibiotics stop infections caused by BACTERIA. Viruses are not BACTERIA. There is no antibiotic that will kill a VIRUS. You have a better chance of killing a bear with a fart in a downward wind than killing a virus with bacteria.

If you get bored you can do some reading on how antibiotics came to be discovered and how they work. It’s grade school science stuff. No serious education required to understand it.

 

INSERT DRAMATIC RECREATION:

Science guys talking in an old-fashioned lab: Oh look, bread mold kills that bacteria! How cool! Let’s make some more! Now how can we synthesize it? Will it kill other stuff? No? INTERESTING. Will other types of mold kill other bacteria? Let’s do an experiment! whee! Science!!! Wait, what? This religious nutbag says it was the miracle of the old communion wafers that killed the devil in old lady Gabbard, not the mold on them killing her infection? Oh well, he probably thinks antibiotics will kill viruses so he’s kind of an idiot. Let’s laugh at him. HO HO ho ho ho….

FADEOUT

 

So, now that we’re all properly educated, there is a ridiculous video going around with someone who looks like an obstetrician who is claiming that there are TWO known antibiotics that a French study discovered will kill covid-19.

Someone needs to find out where said OBgyn went to med school (doubtful that he is actually a doc, but just in case) and burn that school to the ground. Then they need to take this guy and shove him head first into a meat grinder.

I get it. Science is hard and confusing. And when you were little, you would get sick, the doctor would prescribe antibiotics, and you would get better.

And it’s true, doctors will sometimes give antibiotics to patients who don’t need them just to get whiney, ignorant parents to shut the fuck up. Not as much as they used to, because they’re discovering antibiotics aren’t as harmless as they used to think they were, but it was pretty much common practice in the 70s. Because moms will not stop asking for them. Because moms are often stupid people.

Don’t jump in and say “But I took antibiotics once to cure the flu and it worked!”

No, You didn’t. Either you didn’t have the flu OR you had a subsequent infection following the flu (much more likely) and the antibiotics cured that.

Don’t jump in with “You’re not as smart as you think you are. You’re not even a real taoist. You don’t know everything. This guy is a DOCTOR.”

No. he’s probably not. And yes. I am as smart as I think I am. And even if I fell off the dumb tree and smacked into every branch on the way down, I’m still smarter than a person who believes antibiotics can kill a virus. And my tao is my tao. You can roll yours up and smoke it.

Don’t make that stupid anus-lips thing where you scrunch your mouth up tight and look all prissy and superior (or as my friends and I used to call it “baptist face”) and say “well, I know what I know!”

No. You don’t. You are a dipshit. Find a grownup to explain to you the difference between virus and bacteria. Have them maybe draw pictures, and use small words.

Then have them slap you on principle.

 

INSERT SMART AND STERN VERY MASCULINE VOICEOVER:

Imagine this: The ignorance that led to our current government chaos is like a VIRUS. It spreads through Facebook posts, and after-church conversations at cheap restaurants where they don’t mind 20 people splitting the bill, and watching opinion-entertainment programming disguised as “news.”

ANTIBIOTICS are like carefully crafted factual statements intended to give facts to ignorant people so they vote more wisely and don’t sound like idiots all the time.

Has that ever worked? No. Because facts don’t penetrate mob ignorance.

/END VOICEOVER

 

See how that works?

If you see anyone posting this video or if anyone sends it to you, wash your eyeballs for 20 seconds.

Then weep for the future. Because ignorance is viral and it is spreading and I don’t think we’re anywhere near flattening the curve on that growth.

 

 

 

 

 

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