and the time before that
(this is a pamphlet from 1888 arguing against smallpox vaccination)

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and the time before that
(this is a pamphlet from 1888 arguing against smallpox vaccination)
gawd yeah. I watched U.S. society not merely throw away the concept of public health in real time, but willfully discard all intelligent thought about infectious disease ~Chara
“Freedom to breathe ozone-filled air brings joy to populace” wowie zowie we really have always been idiots
So much pandemic fiction is completely unbelievable, if only because so much of it seems to assume that people aren't generally pro-pandemic.
I think the thing that can be missing in fiction is the political and economic incentives that push against public health (though World War Z actually did a lot with this), moreso than the fact that a certain percentage of people will always take "don't eat the red berries" as a dare.
I love the board game Pandemic, both for its excellent quality as a game and for the fantasy of cooperatively handling a pandemic through science and medicine.
I love that about the middle third of this rag complains that vaccination is a lie for money, and then the table of contents just casually admits that the last third is 100% ads for the author's business
THEY are ruthless profiteers
I am entitled to compensation for the services I provide