Comments by "Average Alien" (@AverageAlien) on "Why Doctors Used to Wear This Creepy Mask | Joe Rogan and Lindsey Fitzharris" video.

  1. They had no way of knowing of german. They didn't know what was going on, they thought it was related to bad smells
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  2.  @alexgoogle1884  But that's more of a coincidence than intended design. As long as it kept out the smells, it was good enough. Washing hands didn't exist, further reinforcing the idea that Germs were just not known about. No such lifeform could be known about or proven back then. It was all curses and bad spirits
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  3. That's the missing piece of the puzzle, we need plague doctors, of course
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  4.  @alexgoogle1884  Well it's more about the fact that no one could even imagine such a thing as microbes back then.
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