| Samus Aran said: You really don't get it do you? First of all, no one tried to prevent the spread of diseases in the new world. Because quite frankly, no one cared. The whole point is that even if they didn't do anything decent to prevent diseases we still survived, we weren't even endangered- at all. I never said anything about ignoring diseases NOW. The fact that we prevent diseases is only normal because no one wants to die or see his beloved ones die. And the state doesn't want their people to die for obvious reasons. In the past, a lot of these pandemic outbreaks have been seen as a punishment of (a) god by the way. They believed that they couldn't do anything about it because it was god's will. |
I get it. Your stance is that pandemics have occurred and yet we survived comfortably.
I understand your point that they did nothing of substance and humanity survived, however, humanity has been ravaged by disease that we have no natural immunity to on more than one occasion, and often the damage has been costly. Humanity survived easily, not even threatened, but the damage was immense, tens of millions have died.
My point is that even though we are not endangered, we want to prevent as many deaths from disease as possible, whether it's a million or 6.8 billion. Preservation is a natural trait of humanity for various reasons (you gave two in your post). We want to prevent swine flu from becoming a vicious pandemic which kills tens of millions, it is what we do. That's it, that's my point.
