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“ The app allows people who are required to isolate to opt to do their isolation at home, rather than stay at a quarantine facility.” Sounds just like this was

“ The app allows people who are required to isolate to opt to do their isolation at home, rather than stay at a quarantine facility.” Sounds just like this was taken from a dystopian novel.

throwanem 5y ago
So does a global pandemic that's killed millions worldwide.
- ls612 5y ago
  Nah that was just taken from the history books. It was our totalitarian response that was from the dystopian novel.
  - AndrewBissell 5y ago
    The historical ignorance around Covid and other pandemics, and the way people act as though it was some unprecedented event that justifies the unprecedented reaction, is really stunning.
    - throwanem 5y ago
      One might perhaps imagine that those concerned with the lessons of history would not overlook the lack of precedent for a pandemic taking place in a time of ubiquitous and nigh instantaneous global travel. Such a one would be disappointed in this case, certainly, but the expectation could be considered reasonable nonetheless.
      - AndrewBissell 5y ago
        No, this doesn't actually make the definitive difference you think it does. Many earlier pandemics had no problem spreading throughout the almost entire world in relatively short order.
    - isaacremuant 5y ago
      I'm glad you see more and more people voicing how insanely wrong this all has been. For more than a year any counter of the narrative would get vitriol and the same talking points in a very political/religious zealot way
    - javagram 5y ago
      Quarantines and lockdowns were used against previous pandemics such as the 1918 flu pandemic. American Samoa, for instance, was entirely unscathed by the Spanish flu because they instituted a strict quarantine at the border, the same policy Australia/NZ did for Covid-19. See this pre-covid article from 2018, for instance.[0] Sound familiar? > “These communities basically shut themselves down,” explains Howard Markel, an epidemiological historian at the University of Michigan who was one of the authors of the study. “No one came in and no one came out. Schools were closed and there were no public gatherings. We came up with the term ‘protective sequestration’, where a defined and healthy group of people are shielded from the risk of infection from outsiders.” [0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-escaped-the-spanish-flu https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-...
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“ The app allows people who are required to isolate to opt to do their isolation at home, rather than stay at a quarantine facility.” Sounds just like this was taken from a dystopian novel.

throwanem 5y ago

So does a global pandemic that's killed millions worldwide.

ls612 5y ago
Nah that was just taken from the history books. It was our totalitarian response that was from the dystopian novel.
- AndrewBissell 5y ago
  The historical ignorance around Covid and other pandemics, and the way people act as though it was some unprecedented event that justifies the unprecedented reaction, is really stunning.
  - throwanem 5y ago
    One might perhaps imagine that those concerned with the lessons of history would not overlook the lack of precedent for a pandemic taking place in a time of ubiquitous and nigh instantaneous global travel. Such a one would be disappointed in this case, certainly, but the expectation could be considered reasonable nonetheless.
    - AndrewBissell 5y ago
      No, this doesn't actually make the definitive difference you think it does. Many earlier pandemics had no problem spreading throughout the almost entire world in relatively short order.
  - isaacremuant 5y ago
    I'm glad you see more and more people voicing how insanely wrong this all has been. For more than a year any counter of the narrative would get vitriol and the same talking points in a very political/religious zealot way
  - javagram 5y ago
    Quarantines and lockdowns were used against previous pandemics such as the 1918 flu pandemic. American Samoa, for instance, was entirely unscathed by the Spanish flu because they instituted a strict quarantine at the border, the same policy Australia/NZ did for Covid-19. See this pre-covid article from 2018, for instance.[0] Sound familiar? > “These communities basically shut themselves down,” explains Howard Markel, an epidemiological historian at the University of Michigan who was one of the authors of the study. “No one came in and no one came out. Schools were closed and there were no public gatherings. We came up with the term ‘protective sequestration’, where a defined and healthy group of people are shielded from the risk of infection from outsiders.” [0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-escaped-the-spanish-flu https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-...
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