If this is right, then it logically follows that Shopana could have been setting the pieces in place ages ago. A few people here might remember the massive change in society and culture at the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s, which just happens to have started around when smallpox was eradicated, and there are at least three points which fit with this idea of Shopana laying the groundwork for the return of smallpox starting out as soon as it was first eliminated:
a) The rapid rise of "sex-positivism" and collapse in traditional morality into what is essentially an anything goes mentality, and the shift in the gay community, from mostly desiring equality (and, by extension, the right for legally recognized commitments to partners) into the sex obsessed movement it became. If the hyper-promiscuous side of the gay community was an essential stepping stone, then it may have been twisted into the shape needed.
b) The war on children, with all the policies making life miserable for millions of people. Making children rare, and thus forcing the population age up in the west, would, for the simple reason old people tend to be sicker, weaken the average person's immune system.
c) The collapse of the more rural country, and later, suburbia, and the rapid increase in population density in much of the western world. Again, this would allow for disease to spread easier in these overly populated cities, especially paired with the rapid aging.
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Date: 2022-08-10 01:56 pm (UTC)a) The rapid rise of "sex-positivism" and collapse in traditional morality into what is essentially an anything goes mentality, and the shift in the gay community, from mostly desiring equality (and, by extension, the right for legally recognized commitments to partners) into the sex obsessed movement it became. If the hyper-promiscuous side of the gay community was an essential stepping stone, then it may have been twisted into the shape needed.
b) The war on children, with all the policies making life miserable for millions of people. Making children rare, and thus forcing the population age up in the west, would, for the simple reason old people tend to be sicker, weaken the average person's immune system.
c) The collapse of the more rural country, and later, suburbia, and the rapid increase in population density in much of the western world. Again, this would allow for disease to spread easier in these overly populated cities, especially paired with the rapid aging.