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I'm not so pessimistic at all! The travel of information is so incredibly fast. Just thinking back to the ebola scare (my memory may be fuzzy) but we even knew
by kjeetgill 8y ago
I'm not so pessimistic at all!
The travel of information is so incredibly fast. Just thinking back to the ebola scare (my memory may be fuzzy) but we even knew when someone had broken quarantine out in Texas.
We have exact low number counts of how many people even got infected coming into the US.
- fooker 8y agoA hypothetical disease that spreads quickly without apparent symptoms but takes a really long time to incubate would be pretty deadly in the current world. Remember, drug discovery is still not a very scientific process.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoYes. But a long time today (fast and fluid travel) is not the same long time of decades ago. The faster and more frequest we move, the small the long time window gets.
- fooker 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_period