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> According to the WHO, between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases out of the worlds population of 8.2 billion, of which 584 people died. so we can safely say we are safe

If you imagined a counterfactual reality in which the plague had disappeared (it has not), in which death would the problem (that's subjective), in which the one in a million events would be literally negligible (they are not), then you would for some reason conclude that irrational label of "safety".

> Dont get bitten by a rat

That's not how it works.

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> I keep saying it in my head

Pretty please.



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