sexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agoHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.orgexternal-linkmessage-square198linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHow Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announcedfeddit.orgsexy_peach@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square198linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoTo be fair, there was a chance. If 8 billion humans observed quarantine properly and vaccinated we would destroy all forms of influenza.
minus-squarethemurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoIn theory yes, but it’s just not realistic for the whole world. In the western world, yes, we can isolate us if we want. It’s just not that easy everywhere.
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoDidn’t we do that? Now my kid is bringing home a different strain every other day
To be fair, there was a chance. If 8 billion humans observed quarantine properly and vaccinated we would destroy all forms of influenza.
In theory yes, but it’s just not realistic for the whole world. In the western world, yes, we can isolate us if we want. It’s just not that easy everywhere.
Didn’t we do that? Now my kid is bringing home a different strain every other day