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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 1 Nov 2020

    Myth: we just accepted previous pandemic disease cheerfully, dying out with abandon Fact: all of the measures we're enacting today have been used hundreds of times in human historypic.twitter.com/h6QGo9hGSj

    1:19 PM - 1 Nov 2020
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 1 Nov 2020

        "We have never done this before for a pandemic" is only true only if you look back 60 or so years during which there have not been any pandemics on this scale

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      2. Dolpld44‏ @dolpld44 1 Nov 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        I appreciate your insight that is why I follow you, but Wikipedia? C’mon man!

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      1. Jules‏ @jmreycroft 1 Nov 2020
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        Gosh, do you think the @WhiteHouse or @MarkMeadows @SWAtlasHoover could figure that out???!!! Biological warfare has been used throughout the centuries of mankind. I'm sure Dr. Atlas has education on this. He is definitely using it against the American public!

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      1. Ian Sharp-Smith‏ @Iansharpsmithy 1 Nov 2020
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        Ships was a sensible move back then. But using the Eyam lockdown of a few hundred folk, compared to today's lockdowns is daft to put it politely

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      1. Dms:)‏ @MskDom 1 Nov 2020
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        This should be parody. Maybe it is?! Thanks for the laugh :D

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      2. David Ridley‏ @RidleyDM 1 Nov 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        A cordon sanitaire or quarantine seems different from social distancing within a community, though. Have we done that? And if so, for a year?

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      3. Dan Freedman, DO‏ @dfreedman7 2 Nov 2020
        Replying to @RidleyDM @GidMK

        In a way, yes. Local governments like Minneapolis/St Paul closed all public places including schools, churches, dance halls and theaters. Cities that enforced social distancing faired better https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997248/#__ffn_sectitle … https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/ …

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      2. Christopher Snowdon‏Verified account @cjsnowdon 2 Nov 2020
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        Some people say that leeches don't cure disease, but they were actually widely used in the middle ages!

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 2 Nov 2020
        Replying to @cjsnowdon

        Yep. Something being used before does not make it effective, but it is still an ahistorical thing to say that all of this is unprecedented

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