It'd be nice if from this global tragedy came a better understanding of the nightmarish social aspects of disease, but my guess is as soon as COVID-19 is gone most people will go back to not caring very much about it
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@WHO produced this report in 2008 that is still very applicable todayhttps://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-IER-CSDH-08.1 …Show this thread -
For a simple visual representation, here is a famous map of the London Jubilee line showing how each stop further from the city resulted in a decrease of 1 year of life expectancy in the early 2000spic.twitter.com/DEjsh3YePI
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I wrote up a more detailed explanation of all of this in a blog:https://gidmk.medium.com/wealth-protects-against-covid-19-harms-731e09cd97d0 …
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Not gout in the 1600s. Mic drop



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I mean gout isn't contagious but sure. . .
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Non-epidemiologists everywhere: yes, we get it now. Sorry it took the pandemic of a century for it to sink in.
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EACH AND EVERY TIME SOMEONE FINDS THE TIME TO DISPUTE THIS!https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e003063 …
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You know the Spanish flu didn't start in Spain, don't you?
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