Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly
by koheripbal on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:28PM
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This thread is too vague to be meaningful.
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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly
by pas on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:21PM
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The basics are the same. If it spreads (R0 > 1) and the number of sick people in the hospitals grow beyond some limit you will have a lot of problems. No fancy high-tech thing is going to help if it isn't a rapidly deployable cure.
Plus, on top of all that tech the good old politics seems the same. Many countries botched testing, too little too late. So great we had its RNA code online in a matter of days, and even had success stories here and there if some dickheads can't mange the coordinated response.