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I'd say vaccines and antibiotics have made my life vastly better. Let's compare: WW2 was the worst war we've ever had; it killed about 60 million people, or ab
by dmpk2k 14y ago
I'd say vaccines and antibiotics have made my life vastly better.
Let's compare: WW2 was the worst war we've ever had; it killed about 60 million people, or about 2% of the world population.
The Spanish Flu in 1918 killed 3%. Smallpox killed 3-500 million people in the 20th century, or about 5-8x as many as WW2.
Or how about the Black Death a few centuries before? Half the European population gone. It wiped out entire Asian cities too.
Vaccines and antibiotics are miracles we take for granted; our ancestors would think us mad.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> Vaccines and antibiotics are miracles we take for granted; our ancestors would think us mad. And we damn need to speed up the development, as antibiotics are starting to fail due to their overuse. We take the life without major pandemics for granted, but we will get a cold wake-up soon if we don't fight to maintain this.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoWait; have you been reading the news? Several epidemics have swept the globe in recent years already. Did somebody wake up, and I missed it?
- TeMPOraL 14y agoI meant serious pandemics like the ones dmpk2k mentioned. Most of the first worlders didn't fear any serious contagion for decades.