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Other pandemics, like.. H1N1? Or maybe you were thinking about smallpox, polio, measels, and the like? You know, when we would enforce quarantine? Or the 1918

Other pandemics, like.. H1N1? Or maybe you were thinking about smallpox, polio, measels, and the like? You know, when we would enforce quarantine? Or the 1918 flu outbreak, which was worse because of non-reporting on the American side and also had anti-maskers (though, I think quarantine was actually enforced). If you are talking about deaths, it is natural to compare it to other high-death abnormalities. War and pandemics are the easiest to compare absolute death numbers, and helpful for pointing out people's inconsistencies - like caring for 3k deaths in a day when it is an act of violence, but not caring if it is disease. Change things for the folks for 9/11, but not for continuing deaths - some of which are preventable. I'll go right ahead and compare. Smallpox links: [1]https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/... [2]https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/fortpittlettersf00darl#page/n103/...

sto_hristo 6y ago
Yeah, other pandemics. Finally some progress. You even got a good example with the Spanish flu. It was utterly terrifying, considering that it wiped between 1% and 6% of the global population in a sparsely populated world where nobody could easily travel anywhere they wished at any time - vastly different from today's world, which is ideal for an infectious disease. 9/11 was direct act of violence against the US, of course people will take that more personally than something that not only is a whole separate kingdom from the one we're in, but it doesn't even qualify as a living thing. Had it been proved to be used as a weapon and the pandemic - a deliberate attack, people everywhere would take it so personally and dearly that nuclear weapons would be casually flying every day since March. Therefore, 9/11 and the weaponized germs stuff you linked just doesn't make sense in our context. Go make another thread dedicated to weaponization of stuff, you can even include k-t extinction event as well for color, sky is the limit.

sto_hristo 6y ago

Yeah, other pandemics. Finally some progress. You even got a good example with the Spanish flu. It was utterly terrifying, considering that it wiped between 1% and 6% of the global population in a sparsely populated world where nobody could easily travel anywhere they wished at any time - vastly different from today's world, which is ideal for an infectious disease. 9/11 was direct act of violence against the US, of course people will take that more personally than something that not only is a whole separate kingdom from the one we're in, but it doesn't even qualify as a living thing. Had it been proved to be used as a weapon and the pandemic - a deliberate attack, people everywhere would take it so personally and dearly that nuclear weapons would be casually flying every day since March. Therefore, 9/11 and the weaponized germs stuff you linked just doesn't make sense in our context. Go make another thread dedicated to weaponization of stuff, you can even include k-t extinction event as well for color, sky is the limit.