From d124eed3bb3d41de46328baf83966df6ee9dd425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nu=C3=B1o=20Sempere?= Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 20:42:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] 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 da81a2c..e1618f5 100644 --- a/ea/PastPandemics.md +++ b/ea/PastPandemics.md @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ A large factor in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel. Mod In 1918, older adults may have had partial protection caused by exposure to the 1889–1890 flu pandemic, known as the "Russian flu" -![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1918_spanish_flu_waves.gif) +![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/1918_spanish_flu_waves.gif) Another oddity was that the outbreak was widespread in the summer and autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere); influenza is usually worse in winter 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 2/4] 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: From 4a2ab71b476b8513d0e80c1380015661d3daf41f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nu=C3=B1o=20Sempere?= Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 20:53:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update PastPandemics.md --- ea/PastPandemics.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/ea/PastPandemics.md b/ea/PastPandemics.md index 8619a95..c44d853 100644 --- a/ea/PastPandemics.md +++ b/ea/PastPandemics.md @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ In 1918, older adults may have had partial protection caused by exposure to the ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/1918_spanish_flu_waves.gif) +(Image for the 1918 Spanish Flu) + Another oddity was that the outbreak was widespread in the summer and autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere); influenza is usually worse in winter In New Zealand, 8,573 deaths were attributed to the 1918 pandemic influenza, resulting in a total population fatality rate of 0.7%. Māori were 8 to 10 times as likely to die as other New Zealanders (Pakeha) because of their more crowded living conditions From 82fc2b348a87b82504e9322717187e0d941e87e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nu=C3=B1o=20Sempere?= Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 20:54:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] 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 c44d853..3bc47fc 100644 --- a/ea/PastPandemics.md +++ b/ea/PastPandemics.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Past pandemics -I've been reading about pandemics. The method was reading through this Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics, and miscellaneous sources. The limitations of the method was that this list has a bias towards epidemics in the English-speaking world, that som +I've been reading about pandemics. The method was reading through this Wikipedia list: [List of pandemics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics), and miscellaneous sources. The limitations of the method was that this list has a bias towards epidemics in the English-speaking world, that som e of their figures were wrong, and that towards the end it tends to consider smallish pandemics. Moreover, there weren't that many times whe re a disease was introduced to a new population *and* it had a low fatality rate (influenza being the chief example).