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It makes China’s failure to respond understandable.


At the time it was happening, no one knew that. The media was comparing it to SARS.


Okay, but my original point is that nobody in the West has gone through something like what we’re going through. You’re actually making my point even stronger: not only has no one in the West ever actually lived through a pandemic that took a bunch of lives and requires societal level sacrifice, we’ve all had false alarms that have made us less likely to take potential pandemics seriously.


H1N1 in 2009.


At the time, no one knew that. There was mass panic and surgical masks were also being bought out.


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