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Nobody thinks about smallpox.
We ended a disease that killed 300 million people in a century. We're bored by it.
When a miracle fades into the background, the machinery that made it starts to look unnecessary.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/we-live-in-an-age-of-miracles-and
@Daojoan What really worries/scares me is the possibility of live smallpox existing in graves in melting permafrost which escapes to cause a pandemic.
@Daojoan Same with y2k, ozone layer. (yes different scale but yes)
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It goes hand-in-hand with the “deregulation” mindset
@Daojoan I _will_ read the article shortly, but just now this makes me think of so many risk-based decisions I've made in my day jobs. I take special effort to avert big problems (good processes, quality, engineering, well-grounded decision, whatever), and nobody notices, because the attention-grabbing emergency didn't happen.
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@Daojoan bravo, very good point. This needs goes though my good-news-filter. I am so tiered of these dooms-day-news all day