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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
I have the scar. When I first got my Covid shot my doctor commented that they don’t give them anymore and hadn’t for decades. I said that proved to me that vaccines work.
I hope it doesn’t make a return like measles but at least I am vaccinated and won’t be spreading it.
@Daojoan Turn it up a notch: We live in an age where people are resentful of the miracles we have and seem to want to reverse them for fun. Weird times.
@Daojoan bravo, very good point. This needs goes though my good-news-filter. I am so tiered of these dooms-day-news all day
@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 the CIO (!!) of my company literally used Y2K as an example of when we wasted a ton of effort for something that turned out not to be a big deal, and I wanted to scream.
Bozo bit flipped, for sure.