#the eradication of smallpox has ironically produced generations MORE vulnerable to it than their great-grandparents

[marzipanandminutiae]

as a Millennial, I have a lot of anxieties.

what will the world be like in the future?

will I ever be able to afford a house and children, since I want those?

what if I get spontaneously sent back in time to an era that had smallpox, but after the invention of the inoculation, and have a greater smallpox risk than the people in that era because I was born after smallpox was eradicated and have never had said inoculation? wouldn't it be poetic tragedy if, coming from a time with medical knowledge these people could never even dream of, I died from a disease many of them were immune to because my era was innocent of its ravages?

you know, normal stuff