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> The danger of pandemic will permanently alter how we operate as humans. It never has before. It won't this time either.
by clouddrover 6y ago
> The danger of pandemic will permanently alter how we operate as humans.
It never has before. It won't this time either.
- olliej 6y agoThe Black Death drastically altered how European society worked, playing a large part in the death of serfdom. The other large scale pandemic that comes to mind was the Spanish flu, but that was during WW1 so it's hard to separate out any changes caused by it vs. WW1, and WW1 also did a lot to hide pandemic specific death rates reducing likely flu specific impact on society. That said the relative brevity of the covid pandemic makes me doubt that there will be any large scale changes to society - I suspect it's mostly going to be the normalization of a lot remote work type things. There was already one article about snow days being replaced with remote learning, which was clearly possible years ago but needed the pandemic to become a plausible replacement, etc.