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Apparently unpopular opinion- there was/is no coordinated super-effective thing that a united humanity could have done to stop the spread of Covid once it emerg
by hash872 5y ago
Apparently unpopular opinion- there was/is no coordinated super-effective thing that a united humanity could have done to stop the spread of Covid once it emerged. There's no One Weird Old Trick that prevents a new, deadly disease from spreading in a really interconnected modern world, unless you believe in utterly unrealistic policies like 'everyone on planet Earth coordinates to stay in their house for months to stop the spread'. Countries like Australia that were pretty authoritarian in preventing spread are now getting hit by more waves later on. Certainly there were tons of policy failures along the way, but the disease's spread was pretty unstoppable