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by dredmorbius
2234 days ago
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Inter-regional spread is a major factor. Subways, busses, and taxis largely move people around within an existing interchange are -- metropolitan regions. Aircraft move them across and between continents. In 2003, James Burke revisited his 1978 series "Connections" in a 1-hour interview session, "ReConnections". Asked to describe how he would continue the original series' ending inventions forward, for the jet airplane his answer was immediate: pandemics. Beginning about 47m30s here: https://archive.org/details/JamesBurkeReConnections_0 Critical to realise: SARS-COV-2 isn't the only, and won't be the last new, virus (or other infectious agent) out there. |
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