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timerol on May 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including ‘Do N...

A tweet that hit hard recently from patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1258224216156954624

> A gut punch of a paragraph in a 2010 vintage fantasy novel re: plague response:

> They were intelligently planned procedures, quickly and efficiently carried out, by men who knew what they were doing. They'd never worked in the past, and this time was no exception.

dqpb on May 14, 2020 [–]

But our plague response looked nothing like that. Our plague response looked like Chernobyl.

DuskStar on May 15, 2020 | [–]

Well, the quote is that the plan, competently carried out, STILL didn't work, and had never worked in the past.

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