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by bdunbar 5153 days ago
I don't know whose "laziness" that is.

I don't habitually go around blaming individual problems on 'society' or 'the masses'. But ...

It's 'us' that got weak. Our culture. We got lazy, decided that the poisons that eliminated bedbugs were bad, forgot how awful the things were, how much work it was to keep a household free of pestilence, and let them slip back in.

You can see this attitude everywhere from vaccine deniers to the fools who deride public health measures as intrusive on their liberties.

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Ah, fair enough.