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> but honestly, this isn't that bad of a virus to warrant that. How bad would it have to be?

• jedberg 7y ago
  Measles but without the vaccine. And even then, people seemed to get by just fine for thousands of years with it out in the wild.
  • danielrpa 7y ago
    Back then, diseases often spread much more slowly, if at all, due to the limited transportation methods.
    • jedberg 7y ago
      I don’t think that’s true at all. It just takes one person to start a new city. After that transportation doesn’t really matter. For reference, only 20% of the world’s population has ever flown in airplane. In 2020 there will be about 40 million flights. In 1965, when the measles vaccine was first introduced, there were about 5 million flights, and about 1/2 the world population. But in both cases the majority of those flights were by the wealthiest people in the world. So really not a significant difference in travel. If anything it would be density that would be the problem, since a lot more people live in cities now.
  • watwut 7y ago
    Measles have lower lethality then coronavirus. You also did not had whole population exposed to it at the same time. You can get them only once, so even when kids get sick, adults around wont.