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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!