MERS appears to have jumped the human-camel barrier but would that have been as consequential in a non-oil-dependent world?
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I last wrote about this in 2016. My cartoon was a Zoom screen! Still an unrepentant globalist, and will be one even if none of us leave our homes again ever. You can take the globalist out of the world, but not the world out of the globalist.https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/cosmopolitanism-its-a-beautiful-thing …
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I am possibly wrong on the specific example of Cholera, though I’m skeptical of any definitive theories of historical cases. We just don’t have enough of a historical record. https://twitter.com/adish_war/status/1247766675295850496?s=21 …
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The general parsimonious position I’ll defend is that it is statistics highly unlikely that large populations with a long history have miraculously never produced a pandemic. Every sufficiently populated region has probably produced a few.
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Oh, yes, my fellow melancholy cosmopolitan.
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