And an event like the Covid-19 crisis does something else as well: It helps us perceive the holes in that shield, the vulnerabilities, the places where we need new scientific breakthroughs, new systems, new ways of protecting ourselves from emergent threats. For once, we’re reminded of how dependent everyday life is on medical science, hospitals, public-health authorities, drug supply chains and more. Pandemics have an interesting tendency to make that invisible shield suddenly, briefly visible. A crisis like the global pandemic of 2020-21 gives us a new perspective on all that progress. It protects us through countless interventions, big and small: the chlorine in our drinking water, the ring vaccinations that rid the world of smallpox, the data centers mapping new outbreaks all around the planet. In a sense, human beings have been increasingly protected by an invisible shield, one that has been built, piece by piece, over the last few centuries, keeping us ever safer and further from death. Today average life expectancy in India is roughly 70 years.Īnother reason we have a hard time recognizing this kind of progress is that it tends to be measured not in events but in nonevents: the smallpox infection that didn’t kill you at age 2 the accidental scrape that didn’t give you a lethal bacterial infection the drinking water that didn’t poison you with cholera. A hundred years ago, an impoverished resident of Bombay or Delhi would beat the odds simply by surviving into his or her late 20s. And while Western nations surged far ahead in average life span during the first half of the last century, other nations have caught up in recent decades, with China and India having recorded what almost certainly rank as the fastest gains of any society in history. (During World War II, life expectancy did briefly decline, but with nowhere near the severity of the collapse during the Great Influenza.) The descendants of English and Welsh babies born in 1918, who on average lived just 41 years, today enjoy life expectancies in the 80s. The period from 1916 to 1920 marked the last point in which a major reversal in global life expectancy would be recorded. Instead, what followed was a century of unexpected life. And yet, amazingly, neither came to pass. To put that in comparison, roughly three million people have died from Covid-19 over the past year, on a planet with four times as many people.īoth grim scenarios seemed within the bounds of possibility. The best estimates suggest that as many as 100 million people died from the Great Influenza outbreak that eventually circled the globe. In what was already a time of murderous war, the disease killed millions more on the front lines and in military hospitals in Europe in some populations in India, the mortality rate for those infected approached 20 percent. In the United States, it would cause nearly half of all deaths over the next year. The devastation at Camp Devens would soon be followed by even more catastrophic outbreaks, as the so-called Spanish flu - a strain of influenza virus that science now identifies as H1N1 - spread around the world. We have been averaging about 100 deaths per day.” One can stand it to see one, two or 20 men die, but to see these poor devils dropping like flies sort of gets on your nerves. “It is only a matter of a few hours then until death comes,” a camp physician wrote. But the speed with which it spread through the camp was not nearly as shocking as the lethality. By the end of the second week of the outbreak, one in five soldiers at the base had come down with the illness.
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Other than this I believe this Atlantis would be more of less similar to the ways of life in the U.S with little improvements in every imaginable field.In September 1918, a flu virus began spreading through Camp Devens, an overcrowded military base just outside Boston. They would put self destruct codes within the robot’s program. Robots during this time, because of the lapse in technological advancement would not be as complex as we would have imagined, but complex enough to be highly regulated by the government. Robots would be heavily regulated predominantly because of the trauma which I mentioned of before.
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Pathogens would become more and more resistant to medicines. Because many people cloned rich/famous people without their knowledge by obtaining their DNA from many sources like garbage (tissue paper) and then later claimed their property the constitution would me amended to deny this right of inheritance.
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Cloning would be an option for parents, and many parents would adopt this way of having children creating genetically perfect children, but this method would be costly and some people would like to have their children in the natural way, this would lead to immense differences between the cloned and naturally born humans.