From ccff1891e1ea6876337da35c4d541a6e3690c878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nu=C3=B1o=20Sempere?= Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 20:52:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update PastPandemics.md --- ea/PastPandemics.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ea/PastPandemics.md b/ea/PastPandemics.md index e1618f5..8619a95 100644 --- a/ea/PastPandemics.md +++ b/ea/PastPandemics.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ re a disease was introduced to a new population *and* it had a low fatality rate - Modern plagues can be thought as accelerated versions of older plagues; where it once took years from a pandemic to travel from China to Central Europe, it now takes day or weeks. - Authorities and elites denying the extent of a plague, and this causing more pain and suffering... has been known to happen, and is even common. - The plague... doesn't care about what measures the authorities think are reasonable, or enough. A particularly poignant example of this was the [Great Plague of Marseille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_Marseille) -- +- After a pandemic concludes, there might be some political will to do something so that this never happens again. This is relatively short-lived ## Some comments from my notes: