[DoreenMichele]

FYI: They essentially murdered Semmelweis for not having a theory for how washing hands after examining cadavers and before delivering babies could save lives. He sadly came up with this nutty idea a few decades before we had germ theory and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

[dotnet00]

There's a difference between that, where a small additional step improved safety, and this, where the credibility of the prediction would need to be assessed to be able to mobilize the wide response which would be needed ahead of time.

[hk__2]

FYI that was 200 years ago.

[DoreenMichele]

Things haven't really changed all that much.