Pestilence of the day
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- Nairn2
I think way to look at this is in how China reacted, and with that in mind realise that here in non-Authoritarian states - we probably can't institute the same level of control - the thought of a major city in the UK being effectively cut off from the rest of the country is... beyond my capacity for imagining.
Obviously China was shitting itself about this from not long after it came into being - China's not [completely] run by idiots, so their level of concern must in and of itself be very telling.
Given we have spread by non-symptomatic people, over a fairly long timespan (3+ weeks) coupled to a high rate of infection - basically we have the makings of a bit of a clusterfuck.
We've been culturally-prepared for this scenario by a few decades of panic-instilling media (movies and books and such) and we have pretty much a hundred years ago evidence of how a global pandemic effects itself - and that, in an age when their weren't literally millions of people criss-crossing the, within hours, every day.
I dearly hope that this all passes without too much effect and those of us who are concerned about it feel a bit foolish - but at some point, there WILL be a global pandemic of SOMETHING - so why not this? Why not now?
- *criss-crossing the globeNairn
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- yup that's the difference between china and the west. guests who were supposed to be quarantined in a tenerife hotel thought "fuck it" and went swimming anyway.hans_glib
- but then again, h5n1... or whatever it washans_glib