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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2020

    I remember reading somewhere there was, in the late 19th century, an Austrian school of medical thought that paralleled later Austrian economics: i.e., thought it was best for diseases to run free & extinguish themselves. Does this ring a bell to anyone?

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      1. ‘Bob’ Genghis Khan‏ @Hey_ImDorion 12 Mar 2020
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        So, only the strong survive?

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      1. Frank Neuville‏ @FrankNeuville 12 Mar 2020
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        It worked in the middle ages where it took only a hundred years or so to recover from the plague.

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      1. Xomfort™‏ @Xomfort 12 Mar 2020
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      2. David Ballard‏ @dvdbllrd 12 Mar 2020

        see first paragraph, p 293, and thereabouts, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1806589/?page=12 …

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      1. Christopher M.‏ @deeweeber 12 Mar 2020
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        Yikes, that was a thing? That reminds me- I’ve been waiting, just waiting, for certain types to roll out Failure of Personal Responsibility (tm) as a response to everything

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      2. Irina‏ @IT_not_real 12 Mar 2020
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        Let's be insensible & callous and think about this: 1. Coronavirus kills, mostly, over 55 people. 2. American politics have a generational divide. Over 55 old people dominated. 3. Maybe the coronavirus breaks the bottleneck towards less moderate & progressive policies.

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      3. Irina‏ @IT_not_real 12 Mar 2020
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        The plague killed over 350 million but did result in the renaissance. The great depression killed a lot of people but did allow for FDR's New deal. It's the glass-half-full! (/sarcasm)

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      1. Tom Philpott‏Verified account @tomphilpott 12 Mar 2020
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        Lots of babble on the right about Farr's Law, basically, that contagious diseases extinguish themselves in a predictable bell-shaped pattern. https://nypost.com/2020/03/08/coronavirus-going-to-hit-its-peak-and-start-falling-sooner-than-you-think/ …

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      1. Ed Gaillard‏ @EdwardGaillard 12 Mar 2020
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        Oh, I was just reading about that, I think early on in Barry's _The Great Influenza_. I don't have it to hand. The idea was that then-current treatments for most diseases were known not to work at all, and to often be dangerous.

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