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Message Subject If there was a pandemic coming, how would we know?
Poster Handle Don'tBeAfraid
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that's just it...people wouldn't take a flu threat seriously.
Back in the "olden days" a family would avoid going to town for weeks if they heard of an outbreak
 Quoting: Butterfly girl


Yes they were rather sensible back then.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24909641


Self-isolation is a pragmatic solution. The problem is population density. It's apples and oranges for most Americans. They live in such a density as to make self-isolation very difficult. School closures lead to teenagers going to the mall instead and not stopping the spread of illness.

Because parents work, they bring home illness. It's that simple. There's little chance of self-isolation.

Now the cities with lower incidence rates and lower case-fatalities in the 1918 Pandemic, they closed businesses, schools, houses of worship, public functions, funerals, etc. They did self-isolate successfully, but we're not there yet.
 
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