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How do you reconcile this with the human race existing for so long? I guess you could make the argument global travel has changed things, but I’m not sure.
by rajin444 5y ago
How do you reconcile this with the human race existing for so long? I guess you could make the argument global travel has changed things, but I’m not sure.
- ceejayoz 5y agoI mean, we can strive for more than just existence. The Black Death didn't wipe us out, but that doesn't mean it was fun to undergo.
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- lisper 5y ago> How do you reconcile this with the human race existing for so long? For a disease to make us go extinct it would have to be highly transmissible and have a fatality rate of close to 100%. Anything less than that, and evolution will produce a generation of humans that are resistant to (or otherwise able to protect themselves from) the disease, and from there the population will replenish itself. The great plague had a fatality rate of 30% and it didn't even come close to threatening our existence as a specie. (In fact, the resulting redistribution of wealth arguably contributed to the advent of the renaissance.)