• dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.caOP
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    7 months ago

    Right now my gut reaction is that local governments, but not higher levels of authority, should be able to do what was done to Typhoid Mary, until we have sufficiently convenient and effective ways to be protected from contagious diseases without the cooperation of other people.

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      7 months ago

      But we’re all connected. It just takes one city or county that serves as a petri dish, and then one person to get on a plane, and you have a pandemic