Read this when it came out. In the minutiae was a recounting of how traditional societies dealt with outbreaks through the ages, as they from time to time mishandled infected meat and contracted Ebola. The town of origin would banish any who presented to a quarantine well outside the settlement. Food and water might be brought close by the collective, but the final yards were up to a loved one or the infected themselves. The community itself would isolate with no one in or out until the virus was known to have run its course.
News would spread fast and surrounding groups would block routes of travel and post round the clock sentries to prevent case one. It took the international travel by jet, and over-consumption based economics, to rend asunder ages old wisdom. The most effective way to deal with our current contagion is isolation, as it always was. Like it or not. The pent up frustration of captivity and the inability to party and consume to the extent we were accustomed to are the largest contributors to the rebound. That along with, if we are to be honest, the consequences in public defiance of all social distancing / group size while protesting and counter protesting.
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Read this when it came out. In the minutiae was a recounting of how traditional societies dealt with outbreaks through the ages, as they from time to time mishandled infected meat and contracted Ebola. The town of origin would banish any who presented to a quarantine well outside the settlement. Food and water might be brought close by the collective, but the final yards were up to a loved one or the infected themselves. The community itself would isolate with no one in or out until the virus was known to have run its course.
News would spread fast and surrounding groups would block routes of travel and post round the clock sentries to prevent case one. It took the international travel by jet, and over-consumption based economics, to rend asunder ages old wisdom. The most effective way to deal with our current contagion is isolation, as it always was. Like it or not. The pent up frustration of captivity and the inability to party and consume to the extent we were accustomed to are the largest contributors to the rebound. That along with, if we are to be honest, the consequences in public defiance of all social distancing / group size while protesting and counter protesting.
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