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“We Were Warned,” Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
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Posts Tagged ‘pandemics’
Spanish Flu Wasn’t Spanish
April 17, 2020
The 1918 influenza pandemic did not start in Spain. Europe’s WWI censors forbade discussion of the widespread disease, but neutral Spain’s press reported freely, so the illness became known as the Spanish Flu. A 2018 Cambridge University video
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Pandemics
April 10, 2020
What was the scale of previous pandemics? Animator Alvaro Gracia Montoya compares them by piling up coffins (45cm x 66cm x 200cm, about 18in x 2ft 2in x 6ft 6in).
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“Visualizing the History of Pandemics,” Nicholas LePan, Visual Capitalist
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Paid Sick Leave: Essential to Beating Coronavirus
April 9, 2020
If your grocery, food service, and delivery workers don’t get paid time off when they’re sick, then they need to work while sick, potenially infecting you. When corporations value profits over public safety, we all lose. A Vox video.
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“The Trump administration issued a new rule that blocks guaranteed paid sick leave for 75% of American workers,” Isaac Scher, Business Insider
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New Diseases Come In From the Wild
April 7, 2020
COVID-19 was bound to happen. A Vox video.
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“From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus,” Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker
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