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millions of years of evolution wasnt expecting densely populated metros and near instantaneous world travel. the speed with which we can traverse the world in
by basch 6y ago
millions of years of evolution wasnt expecting densely populated metros and near instantaneous world travel. the speed with which we can traverse the world in the last 100 years, at scale, changes everything.
- colechristensen 6y agoDense cities with no sanitation and global travel existed thousands of years ago, epidemics were frequent and easily actually much worse from a spreading potential, i don’t think the fact that a disease took six months to span continents instead of days or weeks really does change much in a significant way. Evidence of epidemic diseases exist just as long as evidence of human civilization. People are over rating the current situation compared to historical contexts. It is not that it is not bad, it simply might just be the new normal. Or to put it other way, humans might have experienced a brief holiday in low disease risk which is over.