I've always been curious why this wasn't brought up more in the "it's just like the flu" conversation
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Wow, some of those reply guys look like real pricks right now, tbh
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In fairness, many were just saying what was conventional wisdom at the time, including from many experts and public authorities. See, for example:https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1223645359068581888 …
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Thank you for having done this. I've just always been surprised how little airtime this rather simple fact got from others, including public health. I'm glad you're highlighting it again. And thank you for all of your work in general.
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One of the reasons I got into pandemic writing in the first place was trying to explain some of this.
Especially at this stage: transmission and fatality are unclear. Flu isn’t going to kill hundreds of millions. I’m not saying this one will, but a novel coronavirus could. We just contained SARS.