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Plague Legends

Author: shortleash

Score: 19

Comments: 12

Date: 2021-12-01 20:14:50

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boringg wrote at 2021-12-03 14:21:45:

Oh this is a dark and fascinating read.

UweSchmidt wrote at 2021-12-03 12:20:03:

Definitively going to get my booster shot lol.

validuser wrote at 2021-12-03 13:43:07:

Only one?

kkjjkgjjgg wrote at 2021-12-03 14:26:11:

The comparison to Covid - pretty sure if it had happened a couple of decades ago, without PCR tests, nobody would have noticed that there was a pandemic going on. Just a couple of old people dying, why would they have considered it unusual? Not comparable to something like the plague at all.

rescripting wrote at 2021-12-03 14:41:39:

No one would have noticed hospitals suddenly overflowing with patients experiencing respiratory failure? I know it was almost 2 years ago but you must remember the beginning of the pandemic. You didn't need PCR tests to tell you something big was happening.

kkjjkgjjgg wrote at 2021-12-03 15:15:34:

Such things happened before Covid, too. Also I personally wouldn't have noticed anything without the TV reports, I suspect it would have been the same for most people.

AnimalMuppet wrote at 2021-12-03 17:03:49:

"You wouldn't have noticed" != "nobody would have noticed". In particular, the health officials and the medical community would have noticed, and would have informed the media, who would have informed all of the population who pay any attention.

kkjjkgjjgg wrote at 2021-12-03 17:48:11:

Well I question that they would have noticed, seeing as there were a lot of things people were dying from in the past.

AnimalMuppet wrote at 2021-12-03 17:52:59:

As rescripting said above, yes, when hospitals suddenly have an unusual number of patients all dying in the same way, people do in fact notice that.

marcodiego wrote at 2021-12-03 14:44:51:

> nobody would have noticed

Yes, people would have noticed. HIV is much less contagious and was quickly noted once it started spreading more quickly.

kkjjkgjjgg wrote at 2021-12-03 15:14:24:

HIV had people getting weaker over long periods of time, and mostly younger people. Completely different from a bunch of old people dying from flu-like symptoms.

lenzm wrote at 2021-12-03 16:57:13:

The Spanish flu was over 100 years ago and was detected with fewer mortalities than covid. We haven't suddenly developed a new value for human life - 50 years ago, people still cried when their grandparents died.