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Smallpox: The Plague That Humanity Defeated

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History, the Rise and Fall of smallpox: www.history.co...
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CDC: www.cdc.gov/sm...
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Edward Jenner: www.bbc.co.uk/...
In Our Time on inoculation: www.bbc.co.uk/...
Cowpox or horsepox? www.smithsonia...
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Fall of the Inca Empire: www.ancient.eu...
Smallpox and Native Americans: books.google.c...
Infected blankets: www.history.co...
Smallpox in labs today: www.bbc.com/fu...
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Antonine Plague: www.ancient.eu...
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Plague of Athens: www.ancient.eu...
Smallpox in the Hittite Empire: books.google.c...
Does smallpox actually only date from the 16th Century? www.nationalge...
1978 Birmingham outbreak: www.bbc.com/ne...
Notes on wiping out Guinea Worm: www.nature.com...
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@Biographics 4 года назад

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@insanemakaioshin 4 года назад

Edward Jenner needs his own video!

@jerryvr 4 года назад

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@bedtimecartoons5213 4 года назад

*_❤ You Give Such Informative Information ❤ Love You Simon ❤ You Inspire My Documentaries ❤_*

@cedricfranzen8558 4 года назад

how about a video about tuberculosis? It's not eradicated, but it used to be a huge burden on society and today is mostly unknown in most parts of the world

@Digitalhunny 4 года назад

@@bedtimecartoons5213 - Is your channel _really_ dark??

@TheBorderRyker 4 года назад

I remember hearing the news that the world was smallpox free on the radio. It’s one of those moments that you never forget.

@EireHammer 4 года назад

*Afghanistan would like to know you location*

@cameronlowrey9371 4 года назад

How old are you?

@pookypoo1169 4 года назад

How old are you?

@cameronlowrey9371 4 года назад

It was a legit question😊

@lydiahudson2446 4 года назад

It was eradicated in 1980 so he can’t be that old lol

@LizKS48 3 года назад

My Grandma delivered her 10th child while covered from head to foot in smallpox in 1938. This was, as the previous 9, a home birth. They thought my aunt had died in the womb and laid her in a crib while helping Grandma. Another of my aunts who was 12 was looking at her sister in the crib. All of a sudden she called out, "the baby is breathing!" and those in the room rushed to take care of the baby. My Grandma lived to have one more child and died when she was 99.

@StuUngar 3 года назад

Grandpa was very randy to be gettin it on with smallpox covered granny. Your 99 year old granny was a bedroom freak!

@vimtheprotogen2855 3 года назад

@@StuUngar well she wouldn't be covered in pox when they got randy. It takes ~9 months to have a kid Edit: I get it the age range was wrong. Blame the public education system.

@lilacsunshine3044 3 года назад

What a woman!

@lilacsunshine3044 3 года назад

@@StuUngar That was on weird comment,

@StuUngar 3 года назад

@@lilacsunshine3044 Would be in person, unless you knew the person really well.

@OfficialAshArcher 10 месяцев назад

The eradication of smallpox is why my gran despises anti-vaxxers. She’s seen a world with smallpox and how devastating it is, and she’s seen how vaccines have meant I never had to worry about it

@tuesdaypatience 3 года назад

I remember asking my mom (71 yrs) about her smallpox vaccination scar when I (47 yrs) was a kid. She explained how horrible smallpox was and I wanted to know why I didn’t have the scar. It blew my mind that it wasn’t needed because we had literally eradicated the disease in her lifetime!

@varyolla435 3 года назад

Be glad it is gone. I have my scar as well as I also was vaccinated as a child as Smallpox still existed back then and was even then still killing several million people a year worldwide. To give you some perspective. Smallpox was so bad that even the US and USSR at the height of the Cold War = worked together to eradicate it.

@RNClash 2 года назад

How did i got my smallpox vaccine scar? I'm only 16

@tuesdaypatience 2 года назад

@@RNClash That’s really unusual…do you live in the US?

@RNClash 2 года назад

@@tuesdaypatience Brazil

@dualtronix4438 2 года назад

@@RNClash some places still vaccinate people against smallpox

@just_kos99 4 года назад

I read in an excellent biography of Catherine the Great that she voluntarily took the small pox vaccination, in front of many of her subjects, to show how simple it was to get.

@nosuchthing8 3 года назад

If Trump was a real leader, he also should have made a public display over taking the covid vaccine..

@arnolddavies6734 2 года назад

If anti vaxxers had their way, smallpox would still be around.

@laner.845 2 года назад

@@arnolddavies6734 if the internet had been around we never would have eradicated it. The idiots would have united against any sort of cooperation with any government because "muh freedums!"

@Chadius_Thundercock 2 года назад

@@nosuchthing8 oh Christ don’t tell me you think Biden is a real leader

@JustAGamerPerson 2 года назад

@Fake Man spider Let’s not have an argument, shall we?

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” ― Carl Sagan

@judochopmaster8233 4 года назад

How have I not read this quote yet?

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад

@@judochopmaster8233 😀 at last then.

@Rock_Girl_Daze 4 года назад

Think Different - Thought Provoking Ideas so far, we’ve survived it all. Stay safe.

@zoperxplex 4 года назад

Life is fiction, death is the reality.

@SarynPrime 4 года назад

@@zoperxplex no better words have never been said better

@luispagan9170 4 года назад

Antivaxers: "Im gonna ignore everything you just said"

@bradk8768 4 года назад

Unfortunately this term "antivaxxers" is used to hide widespread corporate corruption around the provable harm that vaccines cause when they are exempt from liability since 1986. Most so called "antivaxxers" are actually mothers who have vaccine injured children. Vaccine court has paid out billions to these victims.

@stevenwebb3634 4 года назад

@@bradk8768 where's your evidence?

@bradk8768 4 года назад

@@stevenwebb3634 The question is: do you actually want the evidence ? Most people only care to prove what they already believe."what the thinker thinks the prover will prove " If your inquiry is authentic I will go through the sources for you.

@stevenwebb3634 4 года назад

@@bradk8768 I asked you for evidence didn't I?

@bradk8768 4 года назад

@@stevenwebb3634 Something tells me that If i gave you all the evidence possible, you would not change what you believe. Why waste my time ? the people who look for truth do not need me to feed it to them. Be well Steven.

@buffbarneystan3280 Год назад

The eight-year-old kid that reported their friend for having smallpox was based. She probably saved so many lives with that one small action.

@TechSupport900 4 года назад

His beard is definitely holding the lost colony of Roanoke citizens

@zeroceiling 4 года назад

No...it merely makes him look like a magnificent chick magnet!

@glennt69lol 4 года назад

Under his moustache it says CROATOAN

@carlosallen5905 4 года назад

🤣🤣

@TheAlphaOmega78 4 года назад

Lol!?!

@shea1762 4 года назад

Im screaming

@faithcastillo9597 4 года назад

I remember being vaccinated as a little girl, while in school. Each class was trooped into the school gym and then lined up to see the nurse, who used what looked like a silver mechanical "gun", to give us our inoculations. I'm 60 now and still have that scar on my left shoulder, along with the small white TB bump on my right forearm.

@veralenora7368 4 года назад

I developed a single pox after the vaccination, right between my eyes. It was very mild, left a barely noticeable scar. Yeah, World Health Organization got this one right!

@Robbie_S 4 года назад

Yep I got 'em in early '80s when I was a kid. Still have that Circle on my arm.

@jonser20cent68 4 года назад

I am 51 now and we got that in Ireland. It was called the BCG vaccination.

@qilorarv4999 4 года назад

Well I am from Eastern Europe 28 and have vaccination scars, but I like them, I grew up seeing it on my mom and surrounding people and found them nice reminder of health

@mangot589 4 года назад

Me too.

@SewardWriter 4 года назад

I had a smallpox scare in 1982. Turned out to be a bizarre allergic reaction that looked almost exactly like variola minor (technically called Alastrim). I was five at the time, and mostly angry that I missed my kindergarten Giftmas party (complete with piñatas).

@jakeg3126 3 года назад

I don’t know if I should say congratulations or sorry

@SewardWriter 3 года назад

@@jakeg3126 I missed candy, but bizarre medical memories last until dementia takes them away. 👍

@windhelmguard5295 2 года назад

@@SewardWriter wouldn't be so sure about that. my almost eighty year old granny, who forgets what she had for breakfast, can still tell stories like that. sure she tells the same stories over and over because she forgets which ones she has told already, but those memories never leave. it's similar with the names of her grandchildren, she knows all our names, but struggles to remember which is which.

@manny4707 Год назад

@@windhelmguard5295 Core memories and long term memories are stored in a different part of the brain than recent remembered memories, things like music, colors, videos, pictures, and more are all stored in the most central part of the brain; that being said that’s why most patients with memory loss can remember faces up to a point, songs, videos, pictures, and tell stories with amazing accuracy, as those deeper parts of the brain have not been affected yet

@eyemnew2991 Год назад

My dad had polio at age 10. He's 87 and has never had the polio vaccine. I've had all those childhood shots, had to have them to start school. This vaccine I haven't had and don't plan on getting. From 2020 up to 2023 I'm still not vaccinated.

@moogleprotip 3 года назад

The part that makes me laugh that this guy is literally just going over history of things that actually happened, like well documented illnesses and their treatment, and there are actually people dumb enough to call all the information fake news. Like the great videos, your presentation has earned my sub and I love putting these on as background for when I'm working.

@wonky_shoebox7514 3 года назад

Yeah, because the notes by doctors over the centuries trying to treat and get rid of illnesses are clearly part of an ongoing conspiracy started way back 🙄

@adeleennis2255 3 года назад

I do the same thing. I work in inventory control, primarily a pc job, so listening to his different channels keeps the boredom at bay.

@joshbull623 2 года назад

History is one big mesh up story written by the victors, mixed with rebel anarchists and propagandists that are against said victors, and a smidge of the remnant of the losers. Just because it is in our history books or even taught in school doesn't necessarily make it accurate, especially in certain countries that shall be left unnamed. Consensus and evidence is as always the most important detail. Just because some non peer reviewed journals of some town doctors were found doesn't mean a whole lot, especially considering how few early "doctors" were actually properly educated and given how much medical science has evolved and shown past mistakes, even the educated ones were probably a far cry from doctors even a generation later to the time period covered in this video.

@ootdega 2 года назад

@@joshbull623 What a fantastic way to say absolutely nothing while giving the impression you are saying something profound. Consensus is meaningless when those providing it are idiots, evidence is meaningless when it can be both ignored and produced on command, and peer review is meaningless when you can submit a fake thesis declaring that men are the cause of literally all the world's problems and supporting it with details pulled directly out of your ass...and still get it peer-reviewed and published. *This happened,* and it was only a handful of years ago.

@TheKonkkis 2 года назад

I'm not saying the content in this video was bs, I enjoyed watching it but you do realize that the one who controls the world, controls the history.

@jcfh19981 4 года назад

Small pox killed my great great grandmother’s sister. Measles killed two of her brothers. The flu pandemic of 1918 killed her son, my great grandfather. Tuberculosis killed several of my grandmother’s cousins. My grandmother then became a nurse and cared for polio patients. I have a small pox vaccination scar on my left shoulder. Because my ancestors somehow dodged what killed so many of their loved ones, I am here. All of my kids got their vaccinations and I live to see my grandchildren. Now there’s Covid. So I’m participating in a Covid vaccine trial. It’s not always a sure thing, but science has proven to be far more effective than hopes and prayers & fear and denial.

@Just1Nora 2 года назад

Right on. Now we're about 40% vaxxed, well in the USA anyway, and life is starting to get back to somewhat normal for those with healthy immune systems. (I'm not there yet, but hopefully one day)

@bibrosko 2 года назад

thank you for participating in that trial :-)

@bitchstophe Год назад

Thank you for participating in that trial💜 Me and a lot of my family needed the vaccine so bad since we're highrisk ( Diabetes and a lot of my family are +65 ) Thank you for helping in a time of crisis💜

@jffry890 Год назад

You still alive? Getting any weird radip signals or heart palpatations?

@thearmchairjournalist566 Год назад

@@jffry890 obviously not 😂 Keep drinking the Koolaid 😂

@juliadagnall5816 3 года назад

I read a fascinating book about the history of vaccines, and apparently the man who used cowpox to inoculate his family was so ostracized in his community that he kept quiet about what he did and how effective it was. There were also cartoons in newspapers showing people turning into cows after being vaccinated. It’s sad that even today people are quick to attack vaccines despite the fact that we still have very few effective antiviral drugs and the window in which they work has usually passed by the time a patient seeks medical attention. It’s true that some vaccines can cause side effects (because the whole point is to promote an immune response and sometimes you get more than you bargained for) but they still remain the best way to prevent infections that in many parts of the world are still lethal

@unicornglitterfart5201 Год назад

It’s funny you mention that because that same story came to mind at the beginning of covid vaccinations. Humans will never stop being resistant to knowledge and progress. It’s frustrating. My aunt bought into the whole horse dewormer BS instead of the vaccine. At least she did until she almost died from covid pneumonia. She’s now vaxxed and promotes it, but she carries a lot of guilt because she convinced a lot of her friends to use ivermectin instead of getting vaxxed. 4 of those friends are now dead.

@gabrielajunqueira216 Год назад

It's amazing that the more we change as humans the more the idiot ones stay the same My country's ex-president said, publicly, that the COVID vaccine would turn people into alligators... And some people believed him...

@u4riahsc Год назад

@@unicornglitterfart5201 Sorry for your loss. There needs to be an investigation/study as to why supposedly intelligent people reject proven medical intervention to save their lives.It’s crazy.

@brendasmith1292 3 года назад

I remember the small scars on my grandparents and older family members. They told me about smallpox. I was just too young to understand. They also told me that a lot of family members didn't live because of it. Thank God for its eradication.

@lollol-kz8vc 2 года назад

in 15 and have the scar

@RipRLeeErmey Год назад

@@lollol-kz8vc You got smallpox in the 2000-2010's? Bro is your mom an antivaxxer

@Negs42 5 месяцев назад

Thank science and the people who worked day and night to see it gone. God created smallpox in the first place lol

@alicem2103 Год назад

Currently have monkeypox. I got it at my job. I'm on week 4 of being sick and I'm continuing to get new lesions and have had lingering symptoms like headache and fatigue and fever. My state health department is super confused as are all my doctors I've seen. Monkeypox shouldn't last this long and there aren't any cases known to them where someone's initial lesions fully healed but then new ones developed in other places. I went looking for smallpox videos because monkeypox is the far less deadly cousin of smallpox. It's not related to varicella (chickenpox) it's in the same family as smallpox (orthopox viruses). I wanted to feel better about my situation since I've been feeling so down. This video DEFINITELY helped. I'm so glad I have something like monkeypox as opposed to smallpox. Holy crap that looks awful.

@isocarboxazid Год назад

Hope you are doing better now!!

@gudadada 2 года назад

The power of not politicizing public health and just using common sense

@kolerick Год назад

dangerous enough to cause great damages, but not dangerous enough to cause healthy fear... also, by vaccines or by being infected, we have reached a form of herd immunity. Not enough to not get sick again with the next wave, when we don't have antibodies anymore or if a new strains is different enough for the antibodies to be "inadequate", but enough that the immunity system react faster to exposition and produce antibodies faster than at the first exposure. This difference in the timing is what save most of the "at risk" peoples, alongside the fact that if there is no massive outbreak anymore, the healthcare system isn't overrun like for the 1st 2 waves.

@craigmckenzie4967 Год назад

@@kolerickfucking put this on billboards all across the US south we need it

@danielvandersall6756 Год назад

@@craigmckenzie4967 Most of them can't read it... :)

@malaysiaairlinesflight3706 4 года назад

Antivaxxers: This bridge is only 99.9999 percent safe. I'll just swim instead

@historicalbiblicalresearch8440 4 года назад

That's what antivaxers don't understand yes there are risks to everything, every trip in a car is an impossibly complex set of multiple risks.

@jkilla385 4 года назад

So..... Your profile name is that of the flight that disappeared never to be seen again somewhere in the Indian ocean, And....... That's your comment?

@malaysiaairlinesflight3706 4 года назад

@@jkilla385 Yeah seems right

@jkilla385 4 года назад

Lol I'd rather swim than be on that flight but Lol

@malaysiaairlinesflight3706 4 года назад

@@jkilla385 so you're an antivaxxer I see

@bigmansmallboy 3 года назад

This is MY mental breakdown and I get to choose the comfort video.

@misspat7555 3 года назад

Whatever works for you, hope you feel better soon!

@rhov-anion 3 года назад

I was an infant when smallpox was declared eradicated, and so I was the first person in my family to not have the scar on my arm from the vaccine. Of course, my older siblings used that lack of scar to teased me, saying that the scar meant they were "grownups" and I would never have that mark of maturity. Ah, sibling rivalry!

@Mageman17 2 года назад

A lot can be considered a symbol of maturity. It was (and still is) a hoot when they said that being circumcised is a sign of growing into an adult.

@greg7402 2 года назад

That’s kinda fucked up ngl pffft

@N0rth_Star 2 года назад

dont go to afghanistan

@Chickenduudio Год назад

@@greg7402 How is that "fucked up"?

@Maximus5775 Год назад

@@N0rth_Star Now why tf would anyone do that G ? 🤣

@brett4264 4 года назад

LOL, the email notification said "The plague Humanity Defeated Thanks To Dollar shave Club".

@russellfitzpatrick503 4 года назад

'Cause grooming is everything

@Kaslidaughterofchaos 3 года назад

@@russellfitzpatrick503 😳😳😳

@footballman271 3 года назад

they were the true heros

@omniscientbarebones 2 года назад

@@russellfitzpatrick503 EDP445

@suchnothing 2 года назад

The Segway in the video was almost as hilarious. "It wasn't just devastating in South America... BUT FIRST, DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB!"

@JC-ks3yk 4 года назад

2020 has really sucked so far. An outbreak of rainbows and puppies sounds like a great idea.

@borleyboo5613 4 года назад

J C And kittens....don’t forget kittens. 😃

@james_baker 4 года назад

Who's going to pick up all that puppy poo?

@fernandorodriguez876 4 года назад

Virus aint even real

@mlfeathers7527 4 года назад

Kristy Kelly Yes. A lot of cake.

@hectorskmetija3015 4 года назад

Ohhh outbreak of rainbows, bacon sandwiches and raspberry slush puppies, with a sprinkling of unicorns.

@andreaswidham3607 4 года назад

To my mind, this stands as one of humanity's greatest achievements. Equal to the moon landing in triumph.

@nosuchthing8 3 года назад

Yes. And disturbing that both are considered hoaxes by large segments of the population.

@edwardhisse2687 3 года назад

Unloke moon landing, its actually useful

@emilybarclay8831 3 года назад

I’d say destroying a disease that killed possibly billions of people throughout history is a better achievement than putting some cloth on a rock

@muskatDR 2 года назад

One had a lasting legacy and saved billions, the other one was mostly for prestige

@DennisRash 2 года назад

@@emilybarclay8831 You're a fool if you think that. Without the moon landing and its inventions you wouldn't have a cellphone nor the micro chips to even comment on this news feed. If a new desease broke out nowadays we have instant access to the info and Governments can respond at blazing speeds. This is thanks mostly to the inventions that simply brought us to the moon.

@Ithzzz 3 года назад

its sad some people have forgotten the immeasurable pain and suffering before modern vaccines became widly available. I guess all we can do is hope that education and reason will prevail in the end. The eradication of smallpox was a real goliath vs david story and hopefully not the last!

@andihuang8638 2 года назад

and now, there is ton of people said vaccine is hoax

@kevinplayz7965 2 года назад

@@andihuang8638 ikr

@CdrChaos 2 года назад

It’s because those people have never had to watch a loved one die of smallpox. Or experienced it themselves. One of the more heartbreaking stories that happened repeatedly over the last two years were devout anti-vaxxers on their death beds begging their doctors and nurses for the vaccine they had once claimed was a hoax.

@krisaaron5771 2 года назад

I'm one of the last generation who remembers what a plague was like -- in the early 1950s polio had parents terrified, swimming pools were closed, public playgrounds were shut down and us boomer kids were kept inside for THE ENTIRE SUMMER!! Many families didn't have TVs, and those who did were lucky to get one channel. A year after Sauk vaccine was made available I contracted measles, along with the other neighborhood kids. I was the one who nearly died from it; high fevers caused my hair to fall out and I lost some of my vision. Years later I learned my parents had expected me to die and contacted a funeral home!

@aceofkpop1243 2 года назад

@@krisaaron5771 That is both morbid and scary...but also like, good on you for surviving 👍😅

@ahmedalshamsi1150 4 года назад

How did we defeat smallpox? Antivaxers: Essential Oils

@prestongonzalez3836 3 года назад

*Breathing intensifys*

@dnegel9546 3 года назад

And yet humanity survived without vaccines.. 🤔

@theoriginaltroll388 3 года назад

You know the majority of people who got smallpox were given it purposefully right? Vaccines are cool but I just dont trust humans

@yu-gi-noob9656 3 года назад

@@dnegel9546 Humanity also survives if we stop wearing seatbelts, but does that mean we should stop wearing seatbelts? I’m all for opinions or whatever, but not if it risks the lives of other people.

@TheDragonCat99 3 года назад

@@dnegel9546 “Humanity survived” yeah, with millions dead. Did you even watch the video?

@PRDreams 4 года назад

So incredibly sad that he slit his throat. It broke my heart to hear that. Blaming yourself to the point of suicide has to be such a horrible thing. 😢

@tamfuwing1 4 года назад

He probably thought the lab may have undermined the whole eradication endeavour. Sad he didn't wait to see that it was not a catastrophic breakout.

@kingofducks3156 4 года назад

Anti vaxxer: small pox is gone Together we can change this

@tei4724 4 года назад

"every day, someone gets vaccinated, together we can stop this".

@PS-ug7nm 4 года назад

@@tei4724 "Good luck"

@mohdhr1478 4 года назад

@@tei4724 you didn't finish the sentence; "... and spread new plagues throughout the world."

@dakotasnell8593 4 года назад

Allegedly

@Minute_Sniper 4 года назад

Ah... Anti vaxxer, that's why there a thing called natural selection

@MrNorthwestern2013 3 года назад

It’s amazing hearing the scale of devastation. Of course we’ve all heard of Smallpox, but the absolute destruction it had on lives and humanity is just mind blowing. Let’s hope we get to a place where we can come together and eradicate many more destructive diseases. 😊

@charlieclark9552 2 года назад

Your optimism disgusts me, try being more pessimistic, it makes me happier, mortal

@Polska_Edits 2 года назад

@@charlieclark9552 tf

@25Erix Год назад

The anti-vaxxers are trying their damnedest to ensure that doesn't happen. All because, in their wrong opinion, death is preferable to mental illness, which they're blaming anything and everything for and in spite of many being genetic or a case of the mind wiring differently regardless of what the mother does or doesn't do.

@ccedev Год назад

@@charlieclark9552 I hope you've changed over the past year.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад

1:35 - Chapter 1 - An ancient curse 4:45 - Chapter 2 - The fall of empires 10:40 - Mid roll ads 12:20 - Chapter 3 - Blankets & bullets 14:50 - Chapter 4 - "The greatest gift of our time" 18:35 - Chapter 5 - The disease defeated

@PeaceLoveHonor 2 года назад

I think it's different in different markets... I had ads 2 mins in already. Sheesh, Google/RU-vid.

@bananaspice1967 3 года назад

Imagine shaving off all those little pimples with a razor blade that's totally not sponsored by dollar shave club.

@landonlindgren1145 3 года назад

Nightmare fuel

@davidschaadt3460 3 года назад

That razor commercial made me since !!

@davidschaadt3460 3 года назад

Wince, sorry

@omniscientbarebones 2 года назад

@@davidschaadt3460 editing exists EDIT: Forgot the ‘s’ in ‘exists’

@cuttwice3905 4 года назад

You didn't mention Lady Mary Wortley Montague and the introduction of variolation to England from Turkey. Speaking of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, do an episode about her. She lived a fascinating life.

@MPresheva 4 года назад

As you wish, master.

@malloryjines5050 3 года назад

Yes, this was fascinating. How the first variolations occurred in the Middle East and gradually expanded to the rest of the world.

@sydneyfairbairn3773 3 года назад

My grandfather's family named Montague came from England to the US.

@sitdowndogbreath 3 года назад

@@malloryjines5050 the Muslims have a belief that a fever is the beginning fire of hell or a taste of hell wandering is a related to smallpox

@melanietoth1376 3 года назад

I had chicken pox at 16...it was down my throat and...well in every orafice... ears, nose, unmentionables. The pain was unbearable. I still have nearly bone deep scars. I'm thankful kids today have access to a vaccine. ♡

@NoName-hg6cc Год назад

And it's nothing compared to smallpox!

@Kindheart93 10 месяцев назад

It's really bad to get chicken pox after age 7. It's brutal on the body and it can kill. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I am also glad that kids can get vaccinated, so they don't have to go through that. Or shingles!

@maxandmols9526 4 года назад

"they died in heaps like bedbugs" what an interesting turn of phrase.

4 года назад

My half-sister on my dad's side, her mother turned 86, this last mother's day, and survived a nasty case of smallpox _as a child_ in 1939. She's also nine years older than my father and outlived him by so-far 18yrs, and her last husband was over fifteen years her junior, and he died two years ago. Needless to say, she's being kept in the dark about those two centenarian women who not only survived their own case of Spanish flu, but also survived COVID-19, lest she take this as a personal challenge.

@baronvonjo1929 4 года назад

I never ever had to think if smallpox once. Thank you to all the work those scientist put in

@SkycometAnimeVamp Год назад

The story of smallpox eradication is important because it demonstrates what humanity is capable of, when we find the will to work together

@varyolla435 Год назад

Yes. The eradication of a vaccine preventable infectious disease is reason enough to be glad. That is happened however during the height of the Cold War = is extraordinary. No less than the US and the USSR worked together along with others to facilitate the program which led to the eradication of Smallpox.

@Iheartjareddiamond 4 года назад

The amount of diseases we have defeated thanks to sanitation efforts and vaccines is insane. We now barely know about things like TB, syphilis, the plague, etc.

@louf7178 4 года назад

👍

@MusicGamesEverything 4 года назад

Yet those diseases are still around

@louf7178 4 года назад

@@MusicGamesEverything But not rampant.

@tamfuwing1 4 года назад

@@louf7178 TB is still rampant in Africa and probably third world countries elsewhere. It especially loves to pall around with HIV AIDS. There is even a variety resistant to antibiotics.

@tamfuwing1 4 года назад

Sypholis is far from eradicated. It got a second wind in the 60s and 70s, helped along by "free love". But at least now you can kill it with antibiotics if you catch it in time.

@insulaarachnid 4 года назад

This was both horrifying and really interesting. I would be really interested to hear the history of Tuberculosis.

@insulaarachnid 3 года назад

@8IghtyFour I had to google to find out who Arthur Morgan was, I'm not a gamer :-)

@dytchtoo983 4 года назад

My grandfather survived smallpox. He was born in 1894, and he was young when he caught it, so it had to have been in the first decade of the twentieth century. I'm told he walked out of his skin.

@antisocialnetworking3856 3 года назад

Someone, somewhere, has lost a game of plague inc and decided to restart

@Moroi92 3 года назад

I like to imagine we're in an existetial loop and we're in a game of plague inc playing plague inc unaware of the people in the game we're playing that are also playing themselves

@bigemugamer 4 года назад

Bet you never thought man's competent ability to just wipe crap out would come in handy. ;)

@eldorados_lost_searcher 4 года назад

I know. Usually it's through accident, not deliberate effort.

@rebeccahannigan5419 4 года назад

Hopefully we can repeat this with mosquitos, fingers crossed

@maddog526 4 года назад

Joseph Stalin got smallpox when he was a kid, eventually he recovered from it but he was left with a scar on his face, other kids would teased him and make fun of him, Stalin even exiled or killed artists because they drew the scar.

@apalahartisebuahnama7684 4 года назад

One of many factors that would make him became a monster.

@threadworm437 4 года назад

If only it killed the rat

@catrielmarignaclionti4518 3 года назад

@@threadworm437 wouldnt change anything, stalin is a man amongst many others, he wasnt unique, he just was in a place where it would have been filled by any other.

@catrielmarignaclionti4518 3 года назад

@Conner Wine do you live in a 1st world country? then you are even more disposable than me.

@sarahsmitsxo 2 года назад

@Conner Wine How can everyone be unique? That literally goes against the meaning of the word. Unique means unlike anything else and if everyone’s unique then there’s nothing unique about anyone.

@Kindheart93 10 месяцев назад

I still have my smallpox vaccination scar. Vaccines are the greatest medical achievement in the history of humankind.

@varyolla435 10 месяцев назад

True. I would however point out that mankind has had access to vaccines for more than a century now = and still some have not learned the lesson of their value. For myself the eradication of Smallpox was man's greatest achievement - not because of vaccines per se = but because of what the effort represented. The Smallpox eradication effort was a multi-national endeavor which included support from private corporations who donated resources to the program. Further it took place at the height of the _"Cold War"_ whereby the US and USSR actually worked together towards a common goal against a scourge which had plagued mankind for millennia. Both nations despite representing geopolitical enemies provided resources and personnel to make it happen. So it shows what humanity can accomplish when = we work together.........

@plutolichen Год назад

My grandmother, now in her late 90's was the youngest of ten. She had a sibling who died of smallpox along with several others throughout the years in rural upstate New York. She cried when telling me how happy the disease being eradicated made her after seeing what it could do to her loved ones and community. It's infuriating how a few negligent and selfish people put their heads in the sand and refuse to vaccinate against the pox, allowing the disease to reappear. I want to believe if they'd lived through a time when it was common and deadly like my grandmother they wouldn't feel so entitled as to protest protective measures not just for themselves but their communities, but as we've seen with covid, tragedy won't stop this brand of stupidity. As for my Grandmother, a generally quiet and lovely woman who considers the word "hate" too intense for her to use, she still shouts at the television when the concept of antivaxxing is brought up.

@kellychuang8373 24 дня назад

Really good for her and also another part with bad news antivaxers would never survive these parts like the movie Outbreak and this one Stephen King's The Stand.

@MistaTwitch 4 года назад

This video is an interesting watch. We should be grateful that we are alive now and not another point in history where terrible diseases like smallpox ravaged humans. Watch and BE GRATEFUL I believe people wouldn't be so critical of modern medicine (which I agree has it's problems) if they were transported back 300 years.

@rhondablevins4466 4 года назад

Suub City Ever heard of a disease called Covid-19?

@eamsee657 4 года назад

@@rhondablevins4466 I believe what Suub City is trying to say is that we should be grateful that we live in an era where communication between people over vast distances takes mere minutes as opposed to weeks or months. Where as a society we understand the basic concepts of anatomy, hygiene, viruses, bacteria, etc. and respective treatments. In other words, science. Collectively, we no longer believe that all health and ailments are due to a balance/imbalance of the humors (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm) or that disease was caused by God as a punishment for one's transgressions. Imagine what the state of the world would be like right now if we didn't have the advances of modern medicine and technology. Instead of approximately 733,000 dead - at the time of writing this (Covid-19) , we could very well likely be looking at approximately 50,000,000 dead (Spanish Flu), or worse. Imagine how different things would have been had the Genoese been able to call/email the various heads of government of the nations of Europe, Africa, and those along the silk road.

@golddragonette7795 4 года назад

@@rhondablevins4466 covid 19 is much less fatal than smallpox. Or typhus. Or cholera Add in that cleaning wounds was incredibly difficult and could easily lead to sepsis, people died of easily preventable causes The archaeological record is very clear on the proportions of a population living with significant illness. Even in the relatively protected monestries, many of the skeletons show poor health

@brimonkmonk8212 4 года назад

I agree completely 😊 Back then even drinking water could kill you

@grahvis 4 года назад

@@eamsee657 . Unfortunately we also live in an age of anti intellectualism, where ignorant opinions are considered as having the same value as expert knowledge.

@gawaniwhitecrow2731 3 года назад

Scourge of mankind indeed. Its amazing to see how my own people's history describes how it was so feared at the time, barely 3 people ago, having not had it in our history as long as Europe. Great Video, as always Mr Whistler

@aoistudiosyt 4 года назад

Who else thinks Simon should do an autobiography? After all the other people he's covered, he deserves his own biography.

@saraa.4295 4 года назад

It has been told often: he does not want to

@stephjovi 4 года назад

Watch his 2016 vlog and the few interviews that he did. You'll meet his awesome wife and find out all there is to know

@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 3 года назад

When I was a kid and I first learned of small pox, I thought there was an even worse disease called Large Pox... lol

@TheeItalianStalian 3 года назад

“He came dancing across the water, Cortes, Cortes. What a killer.”

@edydon 3 года назад

Just to get an idea of how devastating this disease was, estimates are that seven out of ten of all the people who have ever lived have died of smallpox.

@AkuaDragon 4 года назад

Remove today’s medical resources and you’ll see how scary today’s bugs can be.

@louf7178 4 года назад

Truely sobering.

@renoloverxoxo 4 года назад

Well. Corona is a brand new pathogen so we are seeing what it's like without vaccines or natural immunity.

@AkuaDragon 4 года назад

renoloverxoxo 😂 remove hospital and years of medical experience including the reduction of nurses and doctors. You can’t compare 1960 car to a 2021, that’s my point. Without today’s resources tings will be way uglier.

@renoloverxoxo 4 года назад

@@AkuaDragon you must not be from the US because our leadership is dumb af.

@efghytmartinez1323 3 года назад

@@renoloverxoxo corona has cousins so it’s not something extremely different, now if it mutates we may be in trouble or better off.

@jamesspencer1997 Год назад

My Grandmother as a young girl was quaritined with smallpox they had someone give them food thru a window every once in a while, I can recall my mom telling me the story and dad telling me that it almost took out the whole world.

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal

@jasmeetxxx9 4 года назад

even though homo sapiens survivrd and neanderthals went extinct, yah i guess it has its ups nd downs.

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад

@@jasmeetxxx9 have you read Sapiens by Yuval?

@jasmeetxxx9 4 года назад

no. if i m wrong, u can tell me directly. i only read manga

@QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад

@@jasmeetxxx9 oh it's about homo sapiens and how we come to rule the planet. How we might be the reason behind Neanderthals extinction. It's a quite famous, interesting and enlightening book.

@jasmeetxxx9 4 года назад

@@QuestionEverythingButWHY i know the book. hv the audiobook with me. i guess i ll get around my procrastination to pick it up someday in paper or in audio. just learning about logical fallacies, so my raider went off when i read a quote from blaise pascal.

@dingytv538 Год назад

I had shingles.... at its heights, the pain was unbearable on my torso nerve...1 year later I still have scars and itching where the out break was... so I had a taste of what these diseases could be like... but these are MUCH worse

@MedievalFolkDance 4 года назад

Smallpox : The plague humanity cured, weaponised, cured again and then kept in a yoghurt pot in a freezer "just in case"

@viennperidot1119 2 года назад

That is probably the best summing-up I've ever read.

@mailcs06 2 года назад

Let’s just hope nobody eats the forbidden yogurt

@radomircita9420 3 года назад

I am proud of being a grandson of one of MuDr. Raška-s colleagues who helped with eradicating smallpox. Interesting thing Is that most participants of the eradication campaign were awarded the "order of bifurcated needle", basically vaccinating needle turned into a ring.

@superclaymaster 2 года назад

I remember my parents celebrating when it was announced on the news. Then they cried because they’d both lost friends or family, that’s the memorable part for me.

@onetoshi 4 года назад

Great video! One of the most interesting stories I read about the smallpox during my studies was from China. In the 17th century the last big nomad realm of the Eurasian Steppes, the Oirat federation ruled over big parts of nowadays Xinjang, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Siberia and western Mongolia. They were almost constantly at war with Qing China, who were unable to defeat the mobile Oirats on the steppes. They also fought of the Russians who were encroaching from the west, and were subdued by these 2 powers after an outbreak of smallpox, that killed half of their population. As the most remote Mongol tribe, they had not built up an immunity or had learnt about inoculation, which was guarded as a state secret in China and thus were in a similar Situation to the native Americans. One source claimed, that the Qing deliberately sent Oirat war prisoners who were infected with the disease back home, so that they would spread it among their peers.

@reality8763 4 года назад

4:10 I swear I thought I heard "Once it got hold, you never got old"

@caryd67 3 года назад

Thumbnail is legs covered with blisters, next immediate image is Simon holding a razor.

@elfae_m0231 4 года назад

Simon describing smallpox: "Not nice." 6:49 Brits really do like understatement lol

@andreaberryman5354 2 года назад

You simply kick butt. I am SO fascinated with disease pathology, and had a lovely time with Swine flu-a shockingly wicked disease. I had fun with MRSA that nearly killed me as well, and I now have flesh missing from my left glute. I have a rare condition where I get a nasty, long-lived and painful welts in reaction to strep throat and Fifths Disease-a type measles. So yes-microbes are terrifying thus fascinating.

@humanpotatoes4958 4 года назад

Let’s not forget that the “Spanish Flu” is in fact the Yank Flu.

@bruces12 4 года назад

Yep, started on a pig farm in Kansas!

@jeremystewert4303 3 года назад

Kansas Flu

@DevjKaiser 3 года назад

Yeap

@KevinM491 3 года назад

wow what a pointless distinction

@sitdowndogbreath 3 года назад

@@bruces12 they were burning 🔥 pig 🐖 waste if I remember right.

@michaelkobylko2969 3 года назад

I feel like James Phipps should have statues of him in every city in the world. That kid took one for the team!

@ExperimentIV 4 года назад

i listened to a four episode podcast about Janet Parker a while back. terrifying. have you heard about unsecured samples being found at other WHO buildings in the past 20 years? not a conspiracy theory, it happened. it’s a wild story

@mijalakis3 4 года назад

Well, that's technically dangerous if you're anti vaccine person or under the age of the first dose.

@ExperimentIV 4 года назад

@@mijalakis3 actually the smallpox vaccine hasn't been given in the west for decades because of the eradication. I was born in the 90s and I don't have it. I don't think a relative of mine born in the late 50s got it either. It may be different in other parts of the world, but I think the smallpox vaccine was discontinued unless you were going to a part of the world where you might get it fairly early in North America. I don't think the smallpox vaccine has been manufactured in ages, either, except for people who have level 4 biohazard clearance and might come into contact with it at either the WHO storage site in the US or the one in Russia.

@joshlanier8567 4 года назад

@@ExperimentIV I was born 94 and I was vaccinated for small pox

@joshlanier8567 4 года назад

@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth So you're telling me what vaccinations I've had now? How smart do you think that is?

@henrytep8884 4 года назад

.... unsecured samples. I mean insecure samples could be a thing, but I don't think many samples dabble into Meyers brigg.

@AfricanBiographics 4 года назад

A relevant video given the times we are living through with Covid-19.

@fanofstuff3327 4 года назад

Slyness69 no it doesn’t have a cure at least not yet

@sebastianhermann1992 4 года назад

@ it might have only a 1% death rate but it will leave many more with permanent lung/heart damage

@thoraneh7365 4 года назад

Covid is nothing compared to smallpox

@PhoenixAngel429 4 года назад

@@sebastianhermann1992 Still not in smallpox's league

@keiranferrier3642 3 года назад

Him: smallpox is the one of the deadliest diseases, and caused the collapse of entire empires Also him 3 seconds later: anyways, have you heard of dollar shave club?

@vinterhufsa 4 месяца назад

I have a big scar on my left arm from a tuberculosis vaccine. Norway usually don't vaccinate most children with it anymore but I am so thankful for all my vaccines as a child and into my adulthood. We are all really blessed that this smallpox is gone.

@varyolla435 4 месяца назад

I was vaccinated against Smallpox as a child as it still raged in the world back then. People today with no living memory of those times have no idea of the way it used to be when outbreaks of Measles or Chickenpox etc. would close down schools etc..

@vinterhufsa 4 месяца назад

@@varyolla435 people in my family had measles and was lucky to survive. Only thing I have lived though is the corona virus and that was scary enough. With anti vaxers measles has begun to spread again. I don't understand why people would take the risk 😵 It's a good thing most people listen to those who lived though these outbreaks.

@varyolla435 3 месяца назад

@@vinterhufsa It is simply human nature. In the US many sadly fall into the description of: _"scientific illiteracy."_ Like the Romans of old who fell into decadence the culture of the US has slid into = _"endless distraction"_ - it now being an entertainment-based culture. Moral: people are like electricity in that they will typically take the path of least resistance. Hence it is far easier to assume than to make the effort to educate oneself so as to understand. Being ignorant of the science + of history + and having access to the internet and cable television which perpetuates *A LOT* of nonsense = yields woefully "distracted" and uneducated individuals on this subject. Dunning-Kruger is the bane of our times.

@Makingthebullet 4 года назад

"When the source of the outbreak was traced to the university building Parker worked in, the Head of the Microbiology Department slit his own throat." Oof.

@happycook6737 3 года назад

Very sad.

@rachelodell8323 4 года назад

I love you Simon and all of your work! But the plague of Athens has been confirmed as typhoid fever. They did dna testing on dental pulp. My undergraduate degree was in history and I love medical history

@MySaucyNuggets 4 года назад

Just listening to this made me scared and itchy. Geez, I’m so thankful for modern science...

@troygaspard6732 Год назад

Being born in 67, my scar vanished by the age of 25. I still can't believe how people suddenly see vaccines as suspicious. They don't want to remember the past.

@samyandkitty8399 4 года назад

I haven’t been watching utube for a while and I’m shocked at how huge your channel is now. I was in the first 500 followers and I just want to congratulate you for this brilliant channel although this video is rank 😂

@pjbravo3284 4 года назад

COVID: I shall complete your legacy my brother. I shall complete your legacy and avenge you. The anti Vaxxers shall assist me in my task

@allanmolina5094 4 года назад

Nothing will stand in my way, I will finish what you started

@Madmij 4 года назад

Us vaxxers help just as much as anti vaxxers

@user-rw6xo9jc3n 4 года назад

Epil Epics huh

@choughed3072 4 года назад

In terms of death rates covid is one of the weakest viruses in history. We still haven't hit the mortality rate of the seasonal flu for 2017/18 yet.

@WilliamMohamad-uv5fi 4 года назад

@@choughed3072 debatable

@pinkywinky911 3 года назад

5 years ago I caught the Chickenpox when I was already 30 years old. I cried not because of the pain but the thought of the scars that will be left behind. Thank goodnesses there wasn’t any scarring. 😭 But it was one of the most miserable 2 weeks of my adult life. 😬

@thelongnguyens 2 года назад

2015 on a trip to Japan, I got chickenpox which I thought it was bedbugs. The itch was crazy and lasted 2 weeks, just a scar happened the first that appeared.

@debbylou5729 Год назад

So, no one thought to tell you that scarring from chicken pox is almost impossible?

@GeologicalNerd Год назад

@@debbylou5729 impossible?! Dude, I have them all over me. It was very possible to get scars from pox. My brother and I both have them.

@jenniferhart559 Год назад

@@debbylou5729My husband and I are both 48, and both had chicken pox in the 1980s. We both still have scars from it.

@debbylou5729 11 месяцев назад

@@jenniferhart559 I had chicken pox, my sisters had them, all of my nieces and nephews had them. All 4 of my kids had them. One of my kids scratched open a sore, it got infected and he was one day away from hospitalization. Everyone at my daughters b’day party got them. My husband got them when he was a baby. The only one with a tiny mark is the one who had them as a baby. So I guess I’ll see your ‘two’ and raise you a few hundred

@Curt-Kierangaming Год назад

This is what mankind can achieve if we actually work together instead of fighting eachother, gives you just a bit of faith in the human race

@yensid4294 4 года назад

No polio mention? Smallpox, polio & I believe diptheria (sp?) were the OG of mass vaccination along with tetanus (DTP) required to attend public schools in the US back in the day. I still have the scar. Measles, chicken pox, mumps & others came later. I got measles & chicken pox as a teen which absolutely sucked. Please vaccinate. And be sure to keep up with boosters if required.

@talkingaboutchange4973 4 года назад

I’m surprised he didn’t mention the near eradication of polio.

@rickkwitkoski1976 4 года назад

Because it hasn't become eradicated and has sprung back from the almost dead! Just like measles. I don't know about diphtheria though.

@charlesachurch7265 4 года назад

Give the lad chance The Salk vaccine deserves it's own episode.

@giorgosthoma849 4 года назад

@@rickkwitkoski1976 and whose fault is that? *points at anti-vaxxers*

@louf7178 4 года назад

@@rickkwitkoski1976 Thus "near eradication".

@miriambucholtz9315 4 года назад

@@charlesachurch7265 I was one of the school kids who took part in the trials of that vaccine in 1954.

@canadiannavywife434 4 года назад

This is great information. I have the Small Pox Scar... my oldest brother had 4.... vaccines save lives. Period. The. End. Hugs from Halifax

@kizW29 4 года назад

Waving from Halifax, uk ☺️

@Alex-yy5wo Год назад

Humanity when Largepox comes in:

@ninjaman815 4 года назад

One of our greatest achievements. Next up, Sars COVID-19

@hydrolito 4 года назад

We still have the flu more than 100 years later. Back in 1918 thru 1920 it killed Estimated 50 million or more world wide.

@RejectedInch 4 года назад

@@hydrolito the flu and the Spanish flu are different strains entirely. Regular flu never killed that amount of people, Spanish flu did and the number still an estimate.

@bluesrocker91 4 года назад

@@RejectedInch The same H1N1 strain caused the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic, and that still circulates annually along with other seasonal flu strains... It was no where near as virulent as the 1918 virus though.

@DarkShroom 4 года назад

@@bluesrocker91 i get the impression it's been confirmed the same (not more virulent) but because the soldiers where in trenches it spread much quicker

@russellfitzpatrick503 4 года назад

Such an uplifting video, in the depths of the C-virus lockdowns. Proving again that you do have the touch for these things

@JACM808 4 года назад

The most uncomfortable part of this video was coming in from the preview of a pox-covered, bumpy & swollen leg, straight into a razor & shaving supplies sponsorship. Trypophobia-inducing.

@Timeward76 2 года назад

The sheer ammount of death and suffering caused by smallpox is unimaginable. Living in a world without it, is nothing but a blessing.

@varyolla435 2 года назад

Actually you allude to the real crux here. Far too many only think in terms of "mortality". While people dying is always a paramount concern the real metric for infectious disease epidemiology is = "morbidity". So the true "cost" of infectious diseases are not the unlucky ones who die. It is the totality of the spread and what follows. A million cases of Measles is still a million cases even if "only" 5K people ultimately die.

@CharlotteNCJack 3 года назад

That’s crazy the blanket thing is only for sure known to have happened once. I remember being told in elementary school that it was a regular thing for colonists to give infected blankets to them

@mlfeathers7527 4 года назад

FYI, my dad had small pox at the age of 6 months. He still had some scars when he died at 71..

@daehr9399 Год назад

When I was a teenager the topic of smallpox inoculations came up while I was speaking with my father and grandfather. Both of them rolled up their sleeves and proudly displayed the nicel-sized scar from their inoculation as children/while in the US Army saving lives. I, myself never vax'd, felt rather left out! My grandfather would have been in his late 70s at the time and my father his late 40s. It always surprised me a bit that my grandfather still had a scar from 60 years prior.

@varyolla435 Год назад

Be glad you were "left out" as that means the scourge of Smallpox was gone. Having a scar is not a good thing as it meant you felt bad for some days and had a blister on your arm which hurt and bothered you. There are photos of people infected with actual Smallpox who survived and many years later their faces were "pockmarked" much as the arms of inoculated - myself included as a child. Trust me you didn't miss much.

@marcguidry5744 3 года назад

I remember being in 1st grade, being in line waiting to be vaccinated for several different viruses. They used this gun looking thing, and then given the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. That was 1967.

@Mrgunsngear 4 года назад

thanks

@billyrusso5741 3 года назад

stolen VALOR REEEEEEEE

@KairuinKorea 4 года назад

Who bets that despite him mentioning it all the time, Simon deffo doesn't use dollar shave club lol.

@rc1853 4 года назад

I bet he does on his head

@insylem 4 года назад

Maybe on the top of his head

@emperorclaudius5499 4 года назад

6:50 lucius Verus died in 169 AD from the antonine plague, Marcus Aurelius died of old age years later in 180 AD.

@gbishop1774 3 года назад

I think it's a good idea to keep secure samples of small pox for the reason you stated. So long as the government doesn't hand out any blankets

@keanudupont 4 года назад

When humans work together there really is nothing we can not do.

@tonybroderick4808 3 года назад

Cancer?

@jenrutherford6690 3 года назад

Except we can't work together.

@philip8498 2 года назад

@@tonybroderick4808 is already being worked on and with how much progress we have made in the last two decades it is unlikely that we will spend more than one or two generations without cancer being something that can be cured affordably.

@kendrickoyola4290 4 года назад

Defeated? Karen, "hold my Pumpkin Spice Latte."

@EmpressMermaid 4 года назад

Karen will find a way to bring it back so she can sell us more of her essential oils

@thoraneh7365 4 года назад

@@EmpressMermaid Doesnt need to be brought back the US keep it in their labs to 'study' on

@EmpressMermaid 4 года назад

@@thoraneh7365 whooosh!

@justinflowers9380 3 года назад

Thankfully only 2 samples of it exist. One in the CDC headquarters, and one in some obscure lab in Siberia. Sure we have some vaccines stockpiled, but if it broke out again it would most certainly cause havoc. I mean, imagine if it broke out in Beijing or New York. Especially to you-know-who. The good thing, is that most countries (I believe) have an emergency plan set in place incase it does.

@claypidgeon4807 2 года назад

Smallpox: *dies* Antivax Karens with essential oils: “This looks like a job for me.”

@MusicGamesEverything 4 года назад

Humanity was getting very close to getting rid of polio and measles, then the anti-intellectual movement revved into high-gear

@tamfuwing1 4 года назад

Mumps owes its resurgence in some places to anti-vaxxing fools as well.

@misspat7555 3 года назад

We still have a shot with polio, but yeah, measles is so contagious it doesn't take many vaccine refusers to keep it going... 😞

@macgibbon 4 года назад

"It sounds like overkill" - maybe 9 months ago it would have, sounds perfectly reasonable now, especially after the full 4 week total lockdown of New Zealand, where I'm from - no Covid now though.

@Robbie_S 4 года назад

Just saw the news about the 1st case comeback there today.

@macgibbon 4 года назад

@@Robbie_S Lol it figures that about an hour after I posted, they'd find 4 cases with no link to any other case, or international travel

@surlygirly1926 4 года назад

@@macgibbon Which in itself is so worrying.

@PrimxInxTeal 4 года назад

What have you done?! You have cursed us all!

@HorusDeathtouch 4 года назад

"After Columbus discovered it" come on, man. You know better than that. "After Columbus landed/travelled there" would make the point without being inaccurate.

@louf7178 4 года назад

As in Columbus' own discovery.