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Let us begin thousands of years ago. The Egyptians believed that the perfect age to live to was well past 100. In the Third Vision, we lived very unusually long lives in the next millennium...when we were free of diseases and illnesses. Not only did we live well into our 100s, but we remained youthful and sexually active. The era of super technologies eradicated disease and illness, opening the door to the perfect age.
Tomorrow, however, we all felt very bad for allowing a Great Sin to go on in the 20th century. You see, closing out the 20th century was a swell of devastating new diseases and, even worse, the return of drug-resistant strains of old killer diseases.
Doctors were less and less able to cope with infectious diseases that achieved resistance to antibiotics. Over just a few very quick years closing out the 20th century, antibiotics became less and less effective. We were thrown back toward an ancient world in which common infections, once again, could kill us.
At first, only a single antibiotic could still stop a popular strain of staph infection that commonly spread throughout hospitals. When that lone remaining antibiotic ceased to work, a few years later, hospitals became risky places to visit. Similarly, the common strep infection also gained resistance to antibiotics. You and your children lived in increasing danger. A killer disease, tuberculosis, returned, this time to our schools, and this time common antibiotics could not stop it. Infectious diseases caught up with modern medicine. In the final year of the 20th century, Americans suffered epidemics not seen in modern times. Before the epidemics began, a Time Magazine cover story warned: "The cost of doing nothing will be millions of lives." Unfortunately, that warning was right. Millions died. Here is a brief review of that futile Time Magazine warning.
But, unfortunately, that era of great medical success and confidence was rapidly giving way to a new era of medical defeat and fear. The Time cover story stated, "The question ceased to be, When will infectious disease be wiped out? and became, Where will the next deadly new plague appear?" The article went on to tell us about new lethal agents emerging in Africa and South America. As population grew and man settled new parts of the world, like a new part of the Brazilian rain forest, for example, new deadly diseases spread from other animals such as monkeys to humans. As those deadly agents adapted to humans, they gained the potential for large-scale deadly pandemics. In today's world of extensive air travel, those deadly agents became just a plane ride from America.
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