A tweet that hit hard recently from patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1258224216156954624

> A gut punch of a paragraph in a 2010 vintage fantasy novel re: plague response:

> They were intelligently planned procedures, quickly and efficiently carried out, by men who knew what they were doing. They'd never worked in the past, and this time was no exception.

But our plague response looked nothing like that. Our plague response looked like Chernobyl.

Well, the quote is that the plan, competently carried out, STILL didn't work, and had never worked in the past.

True, smallpox pretty much decimated the Aztec civilization.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-smallpox-devastated...

Ultimately they would need a genius doctor, as until 17th century even in Europe the correct tracing and containment measures were unknown.

They did not have time for one to appear.

Jesus f*cking christ this is a brutal comment

What’s TDS?

"Trump Derangement Syndrome". Apparently it is what causes people to dislike Trump, as there can be no other reason.

What does that have to do with the Aztecs?

GP's description is wrong. It's when someone dislikes Trump so much that he's always at the top of their mind and interferes with normal thought.

So, what does it have to do with the Aztecs? Nothing, that's the point, and why it's (a rather minor case of) TDS.

Nothing.

> Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a term for criticism of negative reactions to United States President Donald Trump that are perceived to be irrational, and have little regard towards Trump's actual policy positions, or actions undertaken by his administration.[1]

Seems like it shouldn't have a place here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome

I'm guessing it was intended as a joke.

Certainly a very obscure joke :).