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AskPippa🇨🇦

This sounds like a really interesting book.
"A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES: HOW CONTAGION, CLASS, AND CAPTIVITY SHAPED US,
FROM CHOLERA TO COVID-19."

It focuses on six disease crises from the 19th century to the present—cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish flu, sleeping sickness, Ebola, and #COVID-19.

#history #medicine #medmastodon @medmastodon #IDmastodon #infectious #pandemic #endemic #lockdown #quarantine
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www.nasw.orgEdna Bonhomme—A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19“Pandemics start small, grow large due to negligence, and leave rot behind that we generally don’t bother to clean up before the next pandemic arrives,” Edna Bonhomme writes. In _A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19,_ she details how racial, sexual, and class discrimination maintains disparities in healthcare and society.
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people, such as legally binding stay-at-home orders applied across large swathes of the population. Those countries instead chose other measures, such as restrictions on large gatherings of people, extensive testing and quarantining infected people or travel restrictions."
bbc.com/future/article/2025030

Pedestrians – some wearing face masks and others without – cross a road in Taiwan (Credit: Alamy)
BBC · Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19By Chris Baraniuk
#PublicHealth#covid#lockdown
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BGDoncaster

Very good read on The Myth of the Hardened Border!

"Border-first approaches may be increasingly popular—and politically appealing—but they are certain to fail, and to hurt many innocent people in the process. Governments cannot solve the problems of disease, drugs, and illegal immigration by simply battening down the hatches. The challenges that come with living in an interconnected world require more than resorting to the false comfort of border control." foreignaffairs.com/united-stat #borders #immigration #asylum #migration #quarantine #COVID19 #publichealth bordersecurity

US-Mexico border wall
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