Erin Welsh

And I just kept thinking about how the doctors that were handing out these diagnoses held this tremendous amount of power in the knowledge that they had.

And just to kind of get a perspective on what that power was or how impactful this diagnosis could be,

If someone's diagnosis was made public, what kinds of consequences might they face?

And how did that differ based on things like their initial social standing or their gender or their race?

Like, how did all of these things kind of combine into be like the consequences are different for each individual person?

Right.

It's like, well, this wasn't your fault.

We understand.

It happens to everyone.

Boys will be boys.

Boys will be boys.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

Yeah.

And, you know, speaking of, I think another part of this, you know, boys will be boys, different consequences for different genders.

You you explore what happens in the short and long term.

with the diagnosis of pox with two individuals, Betty and John, these hypothetical kind of people who have a brief sexual encounter at Bartholomew Fair and which results in John getting the pox.

Can you tell me more about Betty and John and how they might have found themselves at the fair?

What would have happened immediately after?

I loved this little thought experiment of walking through what happens to these two people after this encounter.