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by kijin 4290 days ago
Villages that quarantined themselves during the Plague were left completely to their own devices. Back then, you couldn't even try to communicate with other villages without risking the messenger's life.

Today, outsiders can airlift food, clean water, and medical supplies to any isolated village that asks for help. So let's stop wasting resources on people who don't want to be helped, and focus on people who actually are desperate for help.

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You do realize _how_ isolated these villages are right? Like the only stranger they see in a month is an itinerant trader? How exactly are they supposed to safely get word out to the "civilized" world? That is assuming that they have already heard that there is a disease going around and what the proper precautions are...