There seemed some rudimentary knowledge at least by the time of the late 18th century.
"if you give blanket of person with smallpox (or other diseases) to enemy, enemy get sick."
The average age at death for those who died with Covid-19 in Scotland was 79 for men and 84 for women. Elsewhere in the NRS report it showed that life expectancy in Scotland is 77.1 for males and 81.1 for females.
maybe we need to consider whether that is all really worth it as a permanent way of life and if we're really making the best choice there.
More than one third of Hispanic decedents (34.9%) and nearly one third (29.5%) of nonwhite decedents were aged <65 years,...13.2% of white decedents were aged <65 years. Consistent with reports describing the characteristics of deaths in persons with COVID-19 in the United States and China (25), approximately three fourths of decedents had one or more underlying medical conditions reported (76.4%).
Hardly permanent. Three very promising vaccines are nearing the end of the pipeline right now and more sure to follow soon, so if we all can keep strapped in for a few more months well get to that light at the end of the tunnel and prevent the premature end of hundreds of thousands of lives, which, I dunno, sounds like a worthy goal. Isnt a measure of modern civilized society how well it protects its most vulnerable?
So what happens when the next virus comes along?, judging by the number of people in the UK in power saying how we didn't lock down early enough for this one it'll be instant for the next one. It's a zero sum game, plenty of people are dying and will die due to Covid restrictions. E.g. Coronavirus: 50,000 cases of cancer left undiagnosed due to Covid disruption, research showsThis figure could double to 100,000 by October 2021 if cancer care services not fully restored, warns Macmillan Cancer Supporthttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-cancer-cases-covid-services-uk-macmillan-b1398672.htmlSo you can dispense with the lefty tactic of trying to divide everyone into those who care about people and those who don't.
Is not seeking medical treatment for suspected cancer seriously a restriction put in place in the UK to prevent the spread of coronavirus? No wonder Johnson is getting such bad press these days.
If we're going to do this every time and have society on virtual lockdown,
Does anyone else appreciate the fact that this disease barely would have been a fart in the wind 140 years ago because most of the people it kills would have already been dead? For 99.999% of humanity's existence this disease would mean jack shit. "Old person died of the coughs" only became news post-Cold War.The thing is, maybe we need to understand that biological lifeforms, for the most part, at least complex animals generally don't do well when they reach old age and that's natural. I mean, diseases are going to crop up all the time and the elderly are going to be the most vulnerable. If we're going to do this every time and have society on virtual lockdown, maybe we need to consider whether that is all really worth it as a permanent way of life and if we're really making the best choice there.
Which isn't a terrible idea, in my opinionNotice how much cleaner the air was during the Chinese/Korean lockdowns? Enough so that it had a *global* impact on recorded CO2 levels.Notice how the rabid consumerism that is rapidly destroying Earth slowed down a notch or two?Good things, both of them.Maybe our "free" society isn't such a great thing. Maybe we really ought to reexamine what is best for us as a society.
Yeah, right. Let's go back to the stone age and be hunter gatherers again.We can get married at 12 or 13 years old because most of us will die inour 40s.Consumerism, technology and production are important cornerstonesfor a successful civilization. The only way to reduce greenhouse gases isthrough advancements and research in new methods of production.Telling people to slow down on consumption is amusing to those fromrich, advanced countries and totally crazy to ones from developing countries.
You'll notice that I wasn't advocating subsistence living or whatever. Just a bit of moderation. Anyway, going back to those times is impossible with a global population of 7.5 billion. The only thing that will save us is technology, and a willingness to make hard choices so that our great grand children don't all end up living in toxic waste dumps
What's going to pop up (pun intended) when the permafrost melts? How many weird organisms have been frozen for millenia under the ground that will kill us with a sniff?
