🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if Jenner's smallpox vaccine had gone differently?
1796 · britain
Cowpox inoculation gives reliable protection against a disease that killed one in ten.
If it had gone differently: Smallpox keeps culling children into the 20th century; the very idea of a vaccine arrives late.
What it made possible
Later turning points that leaned on Jenner's smallpox vaccine. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- 1740Europe's population boom. Without it, Without a surplus of hands and mouths, there is no cheap urban workforce waiting for the factories.
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