word, creepy about talking about kids who, you know, in elementary school, there were kids in the bronx where i grew up who had lice all the time. anyone i ve ever known who went to school, grade school, or remembers it. it s not like these are this sort of signals that these people, these fellow human beings, these children, are somehow unclean in some way that represents a threat to american purity. absolutely. so if you think of kids in a summer camp in pennsylvania getting lice, that doesn t some like a huge threat to the american populous. right. and it s the same disease. what we see historically is that when diseases or conditions occur in people who are social outsiders, so immigrants, people of color, women, those diseases are seen by whiter society as markers that the people are impure or that they re lacking in virtue. so whereas lice has one meaning