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Thank you for this.

I hear lots of people complain about how bad things are. So I ask them if they know the difference between typhus and typhoid.

They never do, because at least in developed countries we never see either of those.

As backup, I ask them how many people they know who have died of starvation, religious pogroms, or smallpox.



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