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
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Unfortunately it’s also true that the denialists also existed even back then. The weird and useless “cures”. Humans are weird. But I’d rather be quarantined now. They didn’t have Netflix or Zoom back then.
Yeah, demonizing countries for diseases that they might not have anything to do with isn't new either. See german measels or spanish flu. Sometimes it feels like history knowledge doesn't stop you from repeating errors, it just allows you to recognize issues you can't stop.
Well that's unsurprising since most people who are complaining probably have know disease management knowledge outside of their personal experience.
I think this is a poor argument. Just because we did something in the past doesn't mean we should do today. Doctors also bled patients thinking they're actually helping them get rid of the disease. You can't say let's bleed covid patients just because that was done 500 years ago.
I'm not saying we *should* do things, but that it is obviously false to argue that we've never done this before as a reason not to
The only things for which “we’ve never done this before” are: knowing this much about disease transmission dynamics THIS EARLY in a disease, and likely having widespread vaccine access within 18-24 months of the first cases.
I.E. the only parts of this pandemic that are unprecedented are the fast dissemination of information (accurate or not) and having existing vaccine & research infrastructure that can refocus quickly.
And we build our emergency response on the speculation of a computer programmer?
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