The Future of Safe Sex (2020) 描画 Edwin Loftus によって

In the 1330s a pandemic struck Europe and northern Africa called "The Black Death." A form of Bubonic plague, in its initial stage it spread through the air and the fatality rate was 100%. If you got it, you died in about 24 to 48 hours in madness and horrible pain. That plague is still with us 700 years later and still kills about 100 people each year. The 14th Century death toll is estimated at around 700,000,000, including about one third of the population of Europe. New forms of the virus caused recurring outbreaks on an average of every ten to twenty years, thereafter, until the 18th Century when better control measures started to be practiced. The last pandemic sized outbreak was in 1666.
This is provided to try to put Covid 19 into some perspective. We have had Flu pandemics far worse than Covid 19 and those viruses are still with us as well. The 1918 to 20 Flu may have killed as many as 100,000,000 people and was particularly lethal to people in their 20s. But that has changed. We have adapted and learned how to treat it and though it still kills thousands every year, we manage to go on with our lives.
So, are you going to let a virus that is only about as deadly as the Flu cause you to lose your freedoms and hopes of a better tomorrow? There are a lot of Malthusian, authoritarian, wanna be dictators that hope you will. Let them keep you safe and the future of sex and everything else will be much bleaker than this image suggests.

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