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> If we kept getting infected with the same virus over and over... humanity would have died off a long time ago.... But it's only recently (~50-100 years) that
by johnchristopher 5y ago
> If we kept getting infected with the same virus over and over... humanity would have died off a long time ago....
But it's only recently (~50-100 years) that we travel around the world so much, would covid-19 have propagated like it's doing now 300 or 2000 years ago ?
- johnchristopher 5y agoI can't edit but in the mean time I have been reading a bit of the Wikipedia page about the black plague in Europe and a world less connected than ours still can burn from a fast spreading virus. And there's been plague outbursts in recent years.