If you go up the thread, you'll see people with a lot of knowledge/expertise disagree on the strength of the evidence of what it was. (Pulling this part out of that thread because some want to debate something else: do pandemics end? I don't think that is controversial: they do).
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In any case, after looking through the history of how the aerosol/airborne debate actually went down, versus what the textbooks said, I think it's really useful to look at history at times with fresh eyes. Did we really know this, or did we conclude something and kept asserting?
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Anyway, due to another interest of mine, I have read a good deal of primary medical sources from the 19th century (for another virus, different topic). There is a lot of detail there, and people may not have had genomic tools, but there was definitely a lot of hypothesis testing.
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So anyone wants to start a substack or knows of a book/dissertation with historical primary texts where people/doctors describe their clinical experience/symptoms for (whatever) 1890 was, especially in comparison to right before/after knowledge/assumptions. Send a flare. :-D
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This is great. But can you please provide more nuance with any discussion that advances the “Covid will attenuate” narrative (since there is currently zero evidence it will)?https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1442546360901791751 …
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That our immune systems won't be naive to it anymore is the difference, not any change of the virus itself.
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I assume you've seen this paper, but (a) just in case and (b) for other people seeing your threadhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8441924/ …
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Yeah I'd seen that. There is a lot of back-and-forth between various people in the field on the details (that I will wait for them to write in papers) but my personal interest is how certain types of knowledge evolves over time, and the symptom set is a great starting point.
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This is a volume from 1890 about the first wave of the 1889 pandemic in Sweden, with epidemiological and clinical discussions (it is in Swedish, however, with some summaries in French and German).https://digital.ub.umu.se/resolve?urn=urn:18a_000683 …
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