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Next virus after coronavirus ?

Will we have additional restrictions when the next pandemic occurs?

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  • 3 months ago

    Not additional restrictions, and most likely less.  Most pandemics involve a form of the flu, and most of them don't occur in the Fourth Turning, when everything gets exaggerated.  The last really deadly pandemic - and it was a flu - was 1918.  There have been several pandemics since then, none of which caused any lockdowns or mandated masks.  Even the 1957 pandemic, which was also a flu, seems to have been pretty deadly like covid - and, like covid, killed mostly seniors and almost no children, didn't cause lockdown.  I actually remember it - I was 10.  I recall hearing on the news that 25% of school children were out sick.  But that was in the First Turning, when everybody is hopeful and confident.  

    It is the political and historical phase we are in that causes these crazy reactions.

  • 3 months ago

    We don't know. The last proper pandemic was the Spanish flu in 1918 but there has been other more localised epidemics during that time.

    Assuming a future pandemic it would depend on the actual virus.

  • 3 months ago

    How would we know.

    Introduction of

    SARS - 2003 caused restrictions in some countries

    HKU1 - 2004 no

    H1N1 - 2009 no

    MERS - 2012 caused restrictions in some countries

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