I’ve written about Disease in the past and how it could easily devastate, if not completely destroy, a community trying to rebuild and having to conserve energy and cut corners as much as possible out of sheer necessity.
Disease prevention AIN’T one of the corners that can be cut. Ward’s article is about the increasingly spread of pretty serious diseases even in modern cities where the infrastructure is still relatively intact. Even California with it’s homeless, Illegal Alien invasion, feces filled streets, poverty and crime out of control still dos have an intact Medical, Law Enforcement, Electricity/Water/Sewage and Sanitation Department intact.
And yet even these technologically advanced cites are falling prey to disease. That’s a phenomenon relatively new. In years prior to a decade or so ago that simply didn’t happen. That’s because their Sanitation rules were enforced fairly stringently because the people doing so KNEW that a failure on their part could result in….oh…rampant outbreaks of disease.
So the enforcement of Disease Prevention, Sewage Control, Vermin Control, Water Purification, Garbage Disposal, Cleanliness, Soap, Laundry and the entire panoply of Sanitation is NOT an option if you want to survive.
If this can happen in “Modern” cities imagine what it could do to a small community living at a much lower technological level and with essentially ZERO Medical Infrastructure.
The Librarian