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Re:Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do Not Be a... by timerol on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:33AM (#23180758)
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.

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Re:Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do Not Be a... by dqpb on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#23181101)
But our plague response looked nothing like that. Our plague response looked like Chernobyl.
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Re:Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do Not Be a... by DuskStar on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:55PM (#23188004)
Well, the quote is that the plan, competently carried out, STILL didn't work, and had never worked in the past.
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