That’s my point though - it’s not a great comparison for many reasons but its worth pondering - until a test was developed (testing took a few years to develop after the initial eruptions of cases in San Fran LA and New York) would they have locked down hot spots (as a silly example, but...
Perhaps the economic damage is localized in Covid as well, and more extreme in western economies - be interesting to see what the relative economic damage is in developing nations compared to the complete destabilization of western (or developed) economies. Admittedly crashing of the developed...
We were looking for comparables not absolutely identical situations.
I would expect that if this was HIV in 1982 but today, with today’s social media and political pressures, and we were in the early stages of finding out about HIV, the reactions would be more similar to now than how it rolled...
if this is being so massively fast tracked as opposed to all other threats to human health, then why? Because this is the greatest threat to human health out there, or if we dont get back to normal society and the global system collapses?
Even the frantic rush for the vaccine implies the...