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This reminds me of the warnings about a coronavirus pandemic from over 10 years ago.

We know from geological records that these are periodic events that happened every so often. We are due for one, and it is in our best interest to take the periodicity of nature seriously.

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Exactly. We got pretty lucky (all things considered) with this particular strain. It could have been much, much worse.

I’m continually shocked at how little people appreciate just how lucky we were with this recent pandemic.

Yeah can you imagine if it affected young people in the way Spanish flu did? I honestly think we’d be lucky if our civilization didn’t collapse in the face of something like that, given how this version went down.

I'm not a virusologist, but I read that Spansh flu would be beaten pretty quickly with modern knowledge and procedures. COVID's advantage is that it's not that lethal and often asymptomatic.

Nah, why don't we just keep rolling the dice? What's the worst that could happen? /s

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