So “cooties” approaches to big history thinking around pandemics is just not very enlightening or interesting. But globalization linkages otoh are very interesting. Pandemics as the cost of globalization. Payments due once a century or so.
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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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For some reason the virus is used as "slam dunk" evidence for *both* centralization and decentralization/localism. - centralization: look at China/Singapore! Be efficient! - decentralization: Federal US so inefficient! I need a word for this (since its ubiquitous in politics)
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