re: A history of pandemics

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For me what is worrisome is not, "those pandemics were far worse", it is that this pandemic is so bad even though our ability to treat disease is vastly higher.

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I think this pandemic is showing us our limitations to medical research. Coronaviruses have been around as long as humans have been a species, it seems. You’d think by now we’d have a handle on them.

Yet here comes a novel one and knocks humanity back on our heels. In the long run we may all benefit if a vaccine can actually be created for this very stealthy family of viruses. I think production from workforces would increase dramatically if the common cold can be eliminated along with COVID-19.