My elders are tidy and fastidious in ways that seem absurd to me. Or rather, SEEMED absurd. Now I get it. They lost people. Or their parents lost people. And they learned. And they developed new habits. And so my life was easy and carefree.
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What I’m saying folks is harden up a little you softies. COVID was a cakewalk: the next time a severe influenza strain makes the jump it’s gonna be kids. Learn your lessons. Develop the right habits. Learn to mask up at the slightest provocation.
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Somebody is gonna reply with fists full of pearls and say BUT THE CHILDREN or BUT YOU DONT KNOW WHAT I SACRIFICED Your children will benefit from a more demanding upbringing giving them earlier exposure to reality. The idolization of innocent childhood is bad.
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As far as what you sacrificed: I agree that broad spectrum lockdowns were basically useless. That’s why I’m talking about masks. Because there’s some evidence masks work. There isn’t much evidence stay-at-home orders work.
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But if what you sacrificed was that you feel sad not seeing people smile probably you are the weak link in society in urging to get tough before the next big bad one hits.
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People talk about 1918, but the thing about 1918 is it was the LAST big mortality spike like that until COVID. We remember it also because it was one of the only big old-school plague events for which a ton of countries had good data systems for tracking deaths.
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But if you look at the places that did have death records before 1918, while it was still a bad year, extreme mortality spikes happened a lot! Yellow Fever routinely knocked out huge shares of the population of coastal cities. Cholera, tuberculosis… it was bad stuff!
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We are not going to have that happen because our health systems are


but it’s likely with globalization that we WILL experience frequent challenges to our system.
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But even though our health systems will work wonders, the simple reality is there’s still gonna be growing demand for conscientiousness around infectious disease at the individual level to a greater extent than was socially normative in the past.
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a company that one of my investors knows was literally working on new antibiotics and stopped because there’s “no money in it”. harvard medical school trained founders….
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