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"I have lived through many great tragedies in my life, and some of them actually happened" Mark Twain

• na85 5y ago
  I don't understand the relevance of this quote.
  • jcelerier 5y ago
    Cataclysmic events are very often reported by newspapers, but in practice only a few are actually cataclysmic
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• tbwriting 5y ago
  Imagine posting this in 2018 under an article about coronaviruses in bats.
  • acheron 5y ago
    Or in 2002 or 2011 about coronaviruses or in 2015 about ebola or in 2009 about swine flu or or or... You don't get credit for predicting 10 of the last 1 pandemics.
    • AlotOfReading 5y ago
      Ebola and H1N1 were both epidemics. The former wasn't a pandemic and the latter didn't kill that many people in hindsight, but they were most definitely epidemic in large communities.
      • MaxBarraclough 5y ago
        With the disclaimer that I'm not an expert: Also, ebola didn't just fizzle out of its own accord, its spread was halted by a concerted, and brave, effort. Medics died fighting that epidemic. I suspect it could have been orders of magnitude more lethal had it been handled less effectively.
  • actinium226 5y ago
    Yes, exactly, some of them actually happened!
• allturtles 5y ago
  https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/04/never-happened/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/04/never-happened/