(January 28, 2014 at 6:46 pm)Chas Wrote:(January 28, 2014 at 3:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That's the coin flip, Tara. Yes. It could be less deadly or more deadly and we won't know until it happens.
Far worse though is that unlike in Justinian's time or the Black Death's time, we now have a marvelously developed international air travel web to spread diseases far more quickly.
On the other hand, we have better public health knowledge and systems - sanitation, isolation, diet, etc. that help contain the spread of diseases.
Might be a wash.
Maybe, maybe not. I mean, there are still diseases we can't exacty stop. We're still pretty much helpless against alzheimers, for example, and if you get HIV, you're never going to get rid of it and pancreatic cancer is pretty much a death sentence. Also, diseases are evolving to get past medical advances. MRSA, for example, kinda scares the shit out of me.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
