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I keep hearing this, but why though? If cases start rising again after the end of a quarantine, I'm sure that there will be support in the community to go back

• barry-cotter 7y ago
  Didn’t work that way in the 1918 flu pandemic. No city kept the public health interventions going long enough to avoid a second peak in deaths after they stopped them.
  • zozbot234 7y ago
    Good point, and that's why you can't simply lift every restriction overnight. But the 1918 flu pandemic was literally over 100 years ago, I'd like to think we have learned something in the meantime about how to control disease outbreaks.
    • rabidrat 7y ago
      We did learn things and it caused us to develop a national health care infrastructure. Things have started to decay on that front over the last couple decades though, at least in places like the US which haven't had a SARS outbreak. It's almost like we have to relearn lessons every 4 generations or so, as the older generation dies off and we forget their experiences. Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, here might be our Crisis...
• anoncareer0212 7y ago
  Not sure there will be - I've been scared of this since the New Year, and even I'm all too aware that I'm trading off _having a life_ so people over 70 with pre-existing conditions don't have a couple of years shaved off. Right now, like literally starting this weekend, it turned hip to say you're staying home. We'll see how that looks in 6 weeks, when there's no end in sight and mass layoffs Please, for the love of God, give me the benefit of the doubt on this comment folks. I'm not saying it's right, only that I doubt this sedate state will persist, given the effects of said state.