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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 14
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      We’re gonna get a African-women-narrative/Talmudic style story. Circling the subject with widening circles of context, weaving it into space and time. Sounds like fanfic. I’m down. Let’s go.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 14
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      So apparently global perspective is recent scholarship. In Europe death rate from Spanish Flu was the lowest. WW1 took 2-6x as many lives. But elsewhere SF was much bigger. So opposite pattern of Black Death.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 15
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      Book has 8 parts with 2-5 chapters each. Part 1 is a history of flu viruses. They date to agriculture since they need higher population densities. More co-adapted to humans than malaria or leprosy, not as exclusively parasitic on us as mumps, measles, rubella.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 15
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      So birds are thought to be the natural reservoir of flu viruses, and pigs an intermediate host. Makes sense that we’ve had avian and swine flus.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 15
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      Discussion of how the flu was likely very deadly when it first appeared between 5-12k years ago and adapted to humans. Some discussion of native Americans getting wiped out by European diseases. Dry opening so far, but I appreciate the context setting. Will stop here tonight.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 17
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      1580 was the first properly documented flu pandemic. 10% of Rome died: 8000. Two in 18th century. 19th century was peak of crowd diseases generally.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 17
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      Industrial revolution cities “... were unable to sustain themselves— they needed a constant influx of healthy peasants from the countryside to make up for the lives lost to infection. Wars too brough epidemics in their wake.”

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 17
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      1830 and 1889, two flu pandemics in 18th century. So these things are not common. Wonder if there’s been a coronavirus pandemic before SARS-COV-2 and -1.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 17
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      1889 “Russian” flu — 3 waves, mild-severe-mild. 1 million. First one to be statistically profiled. It also attacked adults, not just elderly and children. Apparently Edvard Munch Scream was fly inspired 😱

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    10. Theologos Sosonis‏ @sosonis Oct 5
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      It is speculated today that this was a coronavirus and not flu virus. And it is still in circulation today as one of the 4-5 known coronaviruses that cause common colds. Queen Victoria's' grandson (and heir) died from it.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 5
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      Source?

      12:38 AM - 5 Oct 2020
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        1. Theologos Sosonis‏ @sosonis Oct 5
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          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/did-a-coronavirus-cause-the-pandemic-that-killed-queen-victorias-heir … Also check Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic … I also found interesting this article:https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-the-key-to-covid-be-found-in-the-russian-pandemic …

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