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If we look at the Spanish flu, which was worse than this, there wasn't much panic and the economy recovered fairly quickly. Here's a random article I found onli
by logicchains 7y ago
If we look at the Spanish flu, which was worse than this, there wasn't much panic and the economy recovered fairly quickly. Here's a random article I found online arguing that we'd get better results (both for public health and the economy) by testing more and isolating the at-risk populations than by quaranting everyone: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pande...
- watwut 7y agoSpanish flu was right after WWI. That affected economy and its recovery quite a lot.
- greedo 7y agoAlso, disease and death from disease was more a cultural norm at the time. From scarlet fever, diptheria, rubella, smallpox, dysentary, cholera, mumps, measles, chickenpox, on and on. Disease hadn't been conquered to the extent that the 21st Century world assumes. We've lived for almost eighty years with penicillin etc. This shapes how we will handle the pandemic.