After antibiotics
were introduced on a large scale we became careless. The sexual revolution was the result of effective birth control
and effective disease control. That is, until we hit the HIV plague and non of the existing antibiotics could help.
The only option was to change behavior, limit transmission. The H5N1 flu will do the same thing... we'll have to
become clean freaks once again ( like happened after the 1918 influenza epidemic )... you know all those popular
disinfectant cleaners like Lysol ? Those entered the marketplace right after the 1918 flu killed about 20,000,000
people, which is roughly the entire population of Slovakia or North Korea or Israel... if it were to kill
*proportionately* the same number of victims, it might eliminate 100,000,000, say the population of Nigeria or the
number of new humans added to the earth in one year... and there's really no medicine that's all that effective...
so we're back to square one, lots of disenfectant, lots of hot water, wearing face masks so you can't spew
droplets when you cough... avoid crowded places, dress warm, don't smoke or irritate respiratory tissue...
everthing mom said to do !
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