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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by underwater on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:43PM (#26964003)
We just lived through two timelines. SARS-CoV-1 in 2003, which was successfully controlled, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, which wasn't.

COVID has caused three million deaths and counting, with widespread disruption to society. How could you look at that and say the reaction in 2003 was overstated?

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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by Izkata on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:02AM (#26965427)
You skipped right over the avian and swine flu pandemics, which weren't controlled and evidently barely registered.

Also, the widespread disruption to society has virtually all been from the lockdowns, not the pandemic.

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