Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Oh NOW People Worry about Ebola- Possible Case in Sweden Sends People into Panic" video.
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One of the most important lessons one can learn from history in the healtcare field is that disease prevention has been the most important factor behind the longer lives people live today, when people normally die when they are 80, instead of 30 as in the early 1800s.
No effective medinces existed in the 1800s and the first blockbuster drugs came in the 1930s, so how was it then possible for people to live twice as long in England before good medicines had been invented?
The answer is disease prevention. Do away with the causes for disease so people don't get sick in the first place. One way of doing this is of course controlling immigration.
But it is also important with other things like getting people to eat healthy, sleep, workout, vaccination, taking a shower and use soap, don't eat where you take a shit, build sewers, drain swamps to get rid of the breeding grounds for malaria mosquitos, have good housing so people don't have to live with sick people or breath in mold from a badly ventilated apartment.
Disease prevention will become more important in the future as antibiotics will become less and less effective. And importing migrants with exotic infectious diseases will only risk of undoing decades of progress that have been done in eradicating disaeses that previously caused much harm in the western world.
The world is at risk of going back to the 1800s again where we had no effective medicines.
I am an optimist and I see that even the stupid unhygienic people in the 1800s managed to double life expectancy from 25 to 50 years without medicines or flush toilets. So I think people will still be able to live long lives also in the future - as long as one doesn't get sick, because then there is no longer any get-out-of-jail free cards that will save you anymore.
The worst case is if we fail in the disease prevention, then we will go back to the early 1800s when people didn't die so much from cancer or heart diseases as they did from virus or bacterial infections.
Doing away with globalism completly is not a preferable thing as I sees it, but some controls are obviously necessary. And illegal immigration needs to stopped completly.
And having Pharmaceutical factories in India that on a daily basis leaks out medicines into the water and thereby cause resistance is simply unacceptable and should be punished by the world community. If they don't get their shit togheter, then they should not get any foreign medicines at all until they get their house in order.
And the mistreatment of animals in CAFOs should also be stopped, and we should boycot countries that export meat that uses antibiotics to treat the many diseases that CAFO animals get. The meat industry is using 80-90% of all the antibiotics in society, so if they can't stop making animals sick then they should be forced to shut down and get replaced by old school farmers that doesn't
mistreat their animals.
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