@mxtthxw my wife's a public health researcher. She pointed straight to Spanish flu as an example of 'this is going to be drawn out and people will quickly stop caring and complying with common sense precautions so they can exercise individual freedoms at the expense of society'. All of this has happened before...
@davecarter@mxtthxw My mom's a GP and we had the same conversation. Particularly after it became clear that many Western nations weren't going to do the rapid quarantining and shutdown of international travel needed to contain it. That said, how quickly researchers spun up vaccines by working together at first was impressive (the subsequent pharma bullshit and denial it was airborne were pretty depressing though and made it very clear we were fucked because corporations put profits before life).
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