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> nobody expects a 100 year event It's not. SARS was only 18 years ago. Now we have SARS-CoV in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_s
by redis_mlc 7y ago
> nobody expects a 100 year event
It's not. SARS was only 18 years ago. Now we have SARS-CoV in 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
We, as a society, need to stop accepting dumb excuses.
- makomk 7y agoSARS wasn't a massive global catastrophe, just like almost all flu epidemics aren't massive global catastrophes but for the opposite reason: it was too deadly, which limited its ability to spread and made it relatively easy to eradicate through contact tracing and testing. This kind of pandemic really does seem to be a 100-year event that requires a disease with a very special set of properties.