The World is Finally Safe and We are Finally Terrified

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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” -Voltaire "The proportion of people killed annually in wars is less than a quarter of what it was in the 1980s, a seventh of what it was in the early 1970s, an eighteenth of what it was in the early 1950s, and a half a percent of what it was during World War II. Genocides, once common, have become rare. In most times and places, homicides kill far more people than wars, and homicide rates have been falling as well. Americans are half as likely to be murdered as they were two dozen years ago. In the world as a whole, people are seven-tenths as likely to be murdered as they were eighteen years ago. Life has been getting safer in every way. Over the course of the 20th century, Americans became 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car accident, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 59 percent less likely to fall to their deaths, 92 percent less likely to die by fire, 90 percent less likely to drown, 92 percent less likely to be asphyxiated, and 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job." -Steven Pinker Interestingly, many diseases have been falling for longer than we had vaccines or even treatments for them. The reason? Mostly sanitation and bug extermination. Plumbers, civil engineers, and exterminators have done more to lengthen life than doctors have. All of human history has been ravaged by communicable disease. To give a pret

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The World is Finally Safe and We are Finally Terrified

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