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They also have a world without smallpox, a world where polio is coming decidedly close to extinction, and a world where cutting your foot on a piece of glass is
by msla 7y ago
They also have a world without smallpox, a world where polio is coming decidedly close to extinction, and a world where cutting your foot on a piece of glass isn't going to mean you die of sepsis. We could lose those things, but we can also keep them, and we definitely never had them before.
- pizzaparty2 7y agobecause they didn't have glass?
- perl4ever 7y agoTetanus used to be a thing that killed people at random. I remember that being vividly captured in one of "The Great Brain" series of children's books that I read as a kid.