@Sparhafoc So .. you are kinda adverse to the general idea of learning from history and applying lessons from the past to the present?
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Does my post suggest that I am?
Rather, I would say that you can't learn how to deal with modern technical problems from examining the material culture of the Bronze Age.
Oh and the way we completly routed out small pox was simple, we invested an unprecedented amount of money and send people literally to every door in every country to vaccinate people. That was especially important in Africa and South America, while people generally went to get vaccinated by themselfs in the first world.
You started with the sentence 'the way we did it was simple' and then proceeded to show that it was anything but simple.
Btw. I have a projected life span of 80 years, thats roughly 30.000 days, so the chance for me to die is 1 in 30.000 ... which means the chance for me to die today is so low, its irrelevant. Conclusion, I am immortal and never gonna die
While I agree with the sentiment, that's not how chance works.