Eventually, the doctors gave up the chlorine hand-washing.
Semmelweis kept trying to convince doctors in other parts of Europe to wash with chlorine, but no one would listen to him.
Even today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent these infections.
Semmelweis failed because the establishment did not want to know the truth, and definitely did not want the public to know the truth.
Semmelweis ultimately died in an asylum. Women continued to die of childbed fever.
Now, 170 years later, people die of hospital-caused infections. Yet, you still have to remind careless nurses and doctors to use hand cleaner each time they visit your room.
When it comes to human belief, facts are far less important than emotion. Despite the absolute fact that hand cleaning prevented childbed fever, doctors didn't want to believe it and didn't want the public to believe it.
And that is why I empathize with Semmelweis.
It is an absolute fact that the U.S. government originally created the U.S. dollar from thin air, simply by creating laws from thin air. The laws made the dollar everything it is, and subsequent laws will make the U.S. dollar everything it will be.
The dollar is wholly the creation of U.S. laws, nothing more.
And just as laws have no physical existence, so too the dollar has no physical existence. You cannot see, feel, taste, smell, or hear a law. Similarly, you cannot see, feel, taste, smell, or hear a dollar. It is nothing more than a legal entity.
As the creator of the legal entity named a "dollar," the U.S. government was, and is, sovereign over that legal entity. It created as many dollars as it wished by the stroke of a pen, and gave these dollars the value it wished, also by the stroke of a pen.
Still today, the government creates as many dollars as it wishes, this time by the press of a computer key. And still today it gives those dollars the value it wishes, also with a computer key.
The U.S. government has the power of Monetary Sovereignty, though it often has not used that power to help the populace.
It is an absolute fact that the U.S., a Monetarily Sovereign nation, cannot unintentionally run short of its own sovereign currency.
And it is an absolute fact that today's establishment, like the doctors of Semmelweis's day, do not want you to understand Monetary Sovereignty.
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