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highwaystar101 on 09 April 2010
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Samus Aran said:
highwaystar101 said:

People have always attempted to heal the sick, just because they haven't been going to doctors thousands of years doesn't mean that it's not part of human nature. You even said that before the 1800's people used to visit faith healers, why? Because that was one of the ways we tried to treat the sick.

The point is that we've always tried to heal the sick, regardless of the method, whether it is a church or a doctor.

If we don't acknowledge disease as something that effects a whole community, then humans don't stand any chance of survival. The old methods (churches etc) didn't do well and life expectancy was low due to disease. But now we have better methods, so we can stop things like the black death from being so rampant.

Our take on it hasn't changed, just our methods of dealing with it.

 

That's the whole freaking point. If diseases didn't endanger us at all when we did pretty much nothing(and with nothing I really do mean nothing, trusting in god to cure you won't do much by it self) then why will it now?

Our take and method of dealing with it have changed. 

They did endanger us though, how many people died from the black death because we had no natural immunity? Their method of dealing with the black death wasn't good, and so most of Europe died. They tried to stop it through, it's just that their method was wrong (for obvious reasons). We now have a better understanding of disease and so we can prevent it more effectively than people did during the black death.

W've always wanted to prevent the spread of disease, this is our take on it, it hasn't changed. We haven't always been able to prevent it, but now we can because our methods have changed.

 

Disease has ravaged whole civilisations in the past because their has been no natural immunity, and no method to prevent it. To ignore a disease like swine flu where again there is no natural immunity, even though we have the method to prevent it, is just plain foolish.