Pandemic-aware Big History probably needs the Harare/Sapiens treatment. Maybe even Gladwell or Tom Friedman level. There’s a pop-narrative vacuum here that’s being filled by the least charitable speculations rather than the most enlightening.
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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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This is his 'evidence'. "In my opinion, cholera bacteria strain that was present before 1817 epidemic underwent change in the intestine of European troops"pic.twitter.com/7yuhVLpBjm
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In case you missed this part showing evidence of Cholera in Europe in the early 16th Century https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1243543661348114433?s=19 … @adish_war
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