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- 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. - 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. - 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) - 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: ## Some comments from my notes: