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Are you not aware that, during the Spanish flu, entire cities were shut down for months, exactly like what's happening now? And that without these actions the
by CydeWeys 7y ago
Are you not aware that, during the Spanish flu, entire cities were shut down for months, exactly like what's happening now? And that without these actions the effects of it would have been much worse? You bringing this up is exactly proving the opposite of the point you're trying to make.
Enforced social distancing is nothing NEW. It's as old as pandemics themselves.
- standardUser 7y agoMedical science barely existed at that time.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThey weren't idiots. They understood that the flu spread from person to person, and that shutting gatherings of people would curtail the spread. This happened. It's part of history. You can't argue against it. There are thousands of contemporaneous newspaper articles about all the measures that were taken to curtail the spread of the Spanish influenza.
- standardUser 7y agoMy point being that we have significantly better data to inform us on exactly how to reduce the transmission rate, we have constantly-improving testing methods, we have the ability to research medicines than can help, we have the ability to research a vaccine. Not only is the not the Spanish flu, it is happening in a profoundly different context. The comparison is superficial.