Director of the Department of Public Health Oswaldo Cruz (wearing Public Health sash): “The vaccine kills the pigskins! It’s written in our books, it’s a proven fact! The goal of your positivism and your science in…”
Mathematician, philosopher, and vaccination opponent Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (wearing Positivist sash): “The goal is yours, you slob! I’ll prove to you by A + B how it’s me who’s with the good of humanity!…”
Joe Public: “Yes! keep arguing! Pick a fight about whether the line of the “footballer” is making your goals [victims], and fairly. In this three-month “match” there are already 2,432…”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1908)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 