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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by johnchristopher on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:18PM (#27825774)
> If we kept getting infected with the same virus over and over... humanity would have died off a long time ago....

But it's only recently (~50-100 years) that we travel around the world so much, would covid-19 have propagated like it's doing now 300 or 2000 years ago ?

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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by johnchristopher on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:56AM (#27830110)
I can't edit but in the mean time I have been reading a bit of the Wikipedia page about the black plague in Europe and a world less connected than ours still can burn from a fast spreading virus.

And there's been plague outbursts in recent years.

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