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  • Warning from ancient Rome (recent article)

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 15 11:51:45 2021
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/ancient-rome-covid.html

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  • From Eric Stevens@21:1/5 to ggggg9271@gmail.com on Tue Feb 16 14:20:08 2021
    On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:51:45 -0800 (PST), gggg gggg
    <ggggg9271@gmail.com> wrote:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/ancient-rome-covid.html
    Comparing the effects of Covid-19 with those of the Antonine Plague
    is vastly overstating the impact of the virus and our reaction to it.
    Our suffering may appear to be as great only because we have been able
    to aggregate more data about the more people living now than is
    available to us about the plague in late Roman times.
    --

    Regards,

    Eric Stevens

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Eric Stevens on Sun Feb 28 20:39:47 2021
    On Monday, February 15, 2021 at 5:20:14 PM UTC-8, Eric Stevens wrote:
    On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:51:45 -0800 (PST),
    <.com> wrote:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/ancient-rome-covid.html
    Comparing the effects of Covid-19 with those of the Antonine Plague
    is vastly overstating the impact of the virus and our reaction to it.
    Our suffering may appear to be as great only because we have been able
    to aggregate more data about the more people living now than is
    available to us about the plague in late Roman times.
    --

    Regards,

    Eric Stevens

    More recent articles on the Antonine Plague:

    https://news.google.com/search?q=%22antonine%20plague%22&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

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