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Well, because we have things like clean water and sanitary preparation of food, we can avoid things like typhoid fever, cholera, ecoli, and all manner of parasi
by mrtesthah 4y ago
Well, because we have things like clean water and sanitary preparation of food, we can avoid things like typhoid fever, cholera, ecoli, and all manner of parasites.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoWe also have jets and international air travel that can take a patient zero anywhere in the world and around any people in a matter of hours (well before they're too sick to know not to be traveling). With the Spanish flu in 1918 it took months for it to get around, mostly through rail and steam ships. With COVID-19 we saw some variants explode around the entire globe in a matter of _weeks_.