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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 stoppe
by 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 agoGood 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 agoWe 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...