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  1. Sep 2020
    1. Iapetos’ boy, if you’re not the smartest of them all. So you still haven’t forgotten your tricks, have you?

      How come they never use their real names?

    1. An effective response will diminish the potential for a repeat of the widespread devastation of the 1918 pandemic.

      I wonder if this means that there won’t be another flu pandemic or just that they will be able to keep it more under control

    2. Four pandemics have occurred in the past century: 1918, 1957, 1968, and 2009. The 1918 pandemic was the worst of them. But the threat of a future flu pandemic remains. A pandemic flu virus could emerge anywhere and spread globally.

      I feel like this information should be more well known. We are always being told to take these precautions so that we don’t get sick, but I never knew that we have gone through four pandemics and are in our fifth one in the last 100 years

    3. City residents were advised to avoid crowds, and instructed to pay particular attention to personal hygiene. In some cities, dance halls were closed. Some streetcar conductors were ordered to keep the windows of their cars open in all but rainy weather. Some municipalities moved court cases outside. Many physicians and nurses were instructed to wear gauze masks when with flu patients.

      We are going through something with some resemblance, but when we were told to take these precautions a lot of people thought it was unreasonable even though we have done this before.