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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Its almost like westerners came up with the germ theory of disease tranamission and adjusted their sanitation methods to prevent it.

[–] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I agree! But also both Hinduism and Islam had cleanliness rituals baked into their religion. Maybe they were able to notice historically that periodic bathing multiple times a day, helped them to avoid diseases!

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Sino-Asian countries only drink hot drinks for similar reasons...

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly humans are stupid and it is so interesting what we learned to do for sometimes awful reasons that turned out to be pretty good for us. I mean a lot of medicine was "getting the devil out of you" for a long time and it sometimes happened to work because people would just do random shit.