In the 20th century, microbe hunters were able to vanquish bacterial
disease. Since the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s, scourges of the
past have been simply forgotten. We moderns with high-tech hospitals and
our dazzling pharmacopoeia are not used to this scale of viral assault
on the human species.
Many pathologists think global population
overload will sooner or later end in a massive viral cull. The virus now
spreading worldwide at exponential rates is not the Big One, however,
and we should be immensely grateful for that. Yet nature is hard to
control. It plays the long game—and well. Like many of us, I am looking
for an upside to alarming medical and economic events, and right now,
that’s hard to find.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/remember-the-black-death-and-be-thankful-this-isnt-it/
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