Takin' his medicine

Bloodletting has a number of benefits such as lowered blood pressure, and getting rid of tainted blood (toxins, snake bites, etc...etc...). It was just used for things it wasn't meant for.

Classic with Steve Martin, Bill Murray, and John Belushi!

Nice try but PhDs weren't a thing until well after this practice had phased out - for pretty much that reason, because PhDs entail research methods that bloodletting does not hold up to.

Nice try but they were the doctors of the day and those who were to be trusted on the subject so you can nitpick if you'd like, while us rubes in the red states will still understand the larger idea of it all.

Uh huh. And the pandemic is worst in your states. Some mysteries solve themselves.

That's if you trust the "news" reports, a person could get diagnosed with post nasal drip and it would be attributed as a Covid death.

And you say you can't get that PhD? That's so weird.

I'll explain further: When (most) people see "PhD" they immediately go to "doctor", because that's what it's "shorthand" for to them, PhD means doctor, it just does and so whereas "doctor's" is 8 keystrokes, "PhD's" is 5, and just happened to shorten the text enough to make it the way I like it, but whether it's the way you like it I could care less. Again, people get the "idea" of the meme, you're just nitpicking because it's your only possible rebuttal to the thought.

I like that you think your explanation has helped you in any way.

Good, I'm glad you got a "happy" out of it, because as far as I can tell leftists are never happy about anything, ever. They do do spite though, and that fills in as a happiness to them but it's a saccharin style as compared to real sugar and then they get back to whatever outrage du jour they were playing with themselves with, so why dont you sit back and pop in from time to time to see if you're right rather than declaring yourself so immediatly? Awfully smug of you, but I'm sure you're sure you're entitled to that smug, amiright, or amiright?

"As far as you can tell" is exactly what's at issue here!

You've been hanging around Octavia_Melody too long, unless that's one of your alts...OM always takes things in memes WAAAY too literally.