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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by gindely on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:07AM (#22662492)
This isn't like the first sars. The first sars was pretty contagious but not like sars 2. The first sars was pretty deadly but not like sars 2.

The article seems reasonable, but people who are much more concerned about sars 2 than we were about sars 1 are rationally responding to very different circumstances - so I think your editorialisation misses the picture.

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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by jaspax on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:13AM (#22662527)
You're underselling your case. COVID-19 has already killed 20x as many people as the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak, infected 40x as many, and it's still going up. Responding to this with "lol we've had this problem before" is just foolish.
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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by seemslegit on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:08AM (#22662844)
The first SARS was actually more deadly, but less contagious.
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