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#covid I was reminded about the 2014 Ebola outbreak that nearly made it into the US, but under Obama's watch it got shut down. Thank God Trump and his cronies weren't in charge at that point! We'd have Ebola endemic around the world, by now. šŸ˜”
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chiasm
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite smh. Humans are dumber than you *can*imagine.
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silverwizard
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@chiasm I think so much about how "SARS is overblown" was a talking point masking successful public health
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ForRealDough
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Oh my, weā€™re back to the ā€œTrump is Satanā€ thing to ameliorate the horrors of a raging plague perpetuated by a D administration.

Itā€™s understandable, I suppose.

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Tagomago
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Read/heard somewhere that, also, viruses like that tend to succeed less given the mortality? I remember that outbreak very well. Here in Spain we had a case because the then right wing Governmentā€™s Health Minister (Ana Mato iirc) decided to bring back to Madrid a Spanish priest who had just caught it in Africa. So one of the nurses who attended him caught it, and then her dog was supposed to have caught it too? The priest died, the nurse recovered, and her dog was slaughtered.
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chiasm
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@tagomago wow, yeah. I've heard that too, but that particular virus is endemic in various places. But you can't brush it off with "it's like the flu!", so maybe that helped with keeping it under control.
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