2009-09-28, 06:35 PM
Providence Wrote:I'm wary of putting things in the Rubik's Cube that are based in opinion and perspective, lest they end up closed like so many others.
So say, by some extreme coincidence, the destruction of the World Trade Center was caused not by man, but by a stray meteor which caused the Boeing's pilots to lose all control and crash into the the north tower completely by accident. Would it be fair game for mockery then?
Regarding AIDS: it has killed 24,000,000 people. The Black Death (heavily theorized to have been the bubonic plague) 100,000,000 people, or 1/4th the Earth's population at the time (implying the global population was about 400,000,000). In comparison, the modern world currently bears the weight of almost 7,000,000,000 humans. Imagine the mortality if the Black Death were to have spread out in today's society. While AIDS may not have a cure yet, it does not in any way reduce the drastic upheaval the plague had brought onto the world.
Correct me if I'm wrong, biology isn't my strongest point, but the black plague was a bacteria, Eventually, people with immunity who lived to pass offspring kept the population going with the immunity. AIDS is a virus so there is no certain immunity to it (aside from a few case studies). So AIDS has more potential to kill, longer.
And speaking of viruses, where's love for the H1N1? >: