Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'public health'

Browse all alternate history scenarios about 'public health'.

What If Sex Education Was Never Controversial?

Exploring the alternate timeline where sex education became a standard, uncontroversial part of school curricula across the United States and globally, transforming public health outcomes and social attitudes toward sexuality.

What If Single-Payer Healthcare Was Adopted in The United States?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States implemented a national single-payer healthcare system, fundamentally transforming American society, economy, and politics.

What If Smallpox Was Never Eradicated?

Exploring the alternate timeline where humanity's first and only successful disease eradication campaign failed, allowing smallpox to remain a deadly global threat into the 21st century.

What If The AIDS Epidemic Never Happened?

Exploring the alternate timeline where HIV never made the leap to humans or was contained before becoming a global pandemic, fundamentally altering public health, LGBTQ+ history, and social development across the globe.

What If The AIDS Epidemic Was Contained Earlier?

Exploring the alternate timeline where HIV/AIDS was identified, understood, and addressed years before it became a global pandemic, potentially saving millions of lives and reshaping social attitudes toward public health and LGBTQ+ communities.

What If The Bhopal Disaster Never Happened?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the catastrophic 1984 gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India never occurred, potentially altering industrial safety standards, corporate accountability, and India's development.