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RE: Why curing patients is bad for the medical industry
Just for the sake of clarity on your list of curable diseases, to be clear Smallpox has been eradicated. It no longer exists as a disease. Thanks to a World wide programme of vaccinations.
That is one of those that depends on whether you are talking about eradicated as in terms of it no longer exists, which is what I was basing my post on, or contained as in it is still sitting, stored in vials in XX number of labs around the world, any one of which could be breached by a number of different methods. (nothing made by man in impenetrable.)
There are far too many people still left in this world how would gladly let loose a biological agent that would destroy the majority of the worlds population simply because they believe their god will protect them while giving the rest of the world the death they deserve.
Don't get me wrong, I still have hope for the human race, but as long as money in any form is the basis for determining who deserves the benefits of the world, there will always be someone waiting in the wings for the opportunity to take something away from someone else.
I did mean Smallpox in the wild rather than the stored version. There is a concern that an inhuman beast could release it back into the wild, I hope that we have the common sense not to.