11 January

Might need to contextualise these. John Snow was the father of epidemiology i.e. the study of disease patterns and causes, in public health. Most famously he discovered that cholera was being spread by dirty water in London, and specifically via a water pump in Broad Street (residents used to pump their water, it wasn’t piped to their houses). All that explanation because this is obviously a parody account, based on his work. But super important, because I find people with no knowledge of public health think what’s happening right now is normal. It’s not, modern ‘neoliberal’ politics is destroying public health, because it doesn’t even believe the ‘public’ exists. Only individuals. I’ll post 1 or 2 of these a day because they’re funny, but also to highlight how insane what we’re doing right now is.