• AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    infectiousness of old diseases is estimated though; there's no way to compare spanish flu besides the broad comparison they made here which is like, the viral equivalent of circumnavigation

    no shit it took longer for a disease in 1919 or 1889 to spread across the world they didn't have planes going directly from hotbeds to new countries