If care is not taken/ If care was not taken. Which one is correct sentence?

Both of the phrases are correct , according to their uses in the sentence
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Both of them are correct.
E.g:
If care is not taken, you will get cavities.
If care was not taken you would have got the flu.
  • The first one indicates that if care will not be taken then something might happen.
  • The second one indicates that care was taken and that if it wouldn't have then the consequences would have been much dire.
Hope this helped!
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Both are correct it just the matter of tense and all other things.
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