Lessons From History For Us Regarding The Coronavirus.

[Monoriu]

More importantly, I think there are a number of lessons we can learn from this.

Maintain sufficient stockpiles at home, including cash, facemasks, rice, toilet paper, alcoholic wipes, bottles of ethanol, hand sanitisers, bleach, canned food, paper products, etc.

It is necessary to maintain a balanced stock and bond portfolio.

Wear facemasks.

Be more vigilant.  This is the second time in 17 years that a new type of pneumonia virus hit us.  There will be a third time.  Each time, there is several weeks' of lead time.  Use the time to get prepared. 

[saskganesh]

Public health care is a good strategic investment. Global health care is an even better one.

[mongers]

Public health care is a good strategic investment. Global health care is an even better one.

Nation state don't just need to be proud of their military, they need to have healthcare the whole nation can take pride in.

[mongers]

Oh, just found a Game of Thrones angle to the question:

Dubrovnik residents look to the past to understand coronavirus lockdown

The streets of Dubrovnik, known as a location for the "Game of Thrones" series and host to 1 million tourists last year alone, have remained empty since early March when Croatia closed its borders to halt the spread of the new coronavirus.

Full article here:
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/FwDAp8NwIFY/dubrovnik-residents-look-to-the-past-to-understand-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN21T0KZ

[Iormlund]

Be more vigilant.  This is the second time in 17 years that a new type of pneumonia virus hit us.  There will be a third time.  Each time, there is several weeks' of lead time.  Use the time to get prepared.

This is actually the third. SARS, MERS, now SARS-2.

Leading Spanish coronavirus virologist said on an interview that they estimate a new coronavirus making the jump every 5 years.

[Sheilbh]

You might find this podcast interesting (it is!):
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/231-from-cholera-to-coronavirus

231 | From Cholera to Coronavirus
March 28, 2020

David talks to the historian Richard Evans about the history of cholera epidemics in the 19th century and what they can teach us for today.  How did contemporaries understand the spread of the disease? What impact did it have on growing demands for democracy?  And who tended to get the blame - foreigners, doctors or politicians?  Plus we discuss whether the political changes being driven by the current pandemic are likely to outlast the disease itself.

[Josquius]

Be more vigilant.  This is the second time in 17 years that a new type of pneumonia virus hit us.  There will be a third time.  Each time, there is several weeks' of lead time.  Use the time to get prepared.

This is actually the third. SARS, MERS, now SARS-2.

Leading Spanish coronavirus virologist said on an interview that they estimate a new coronavirus making the jump every 5 years.

And if China starts enforcing common sense hygene laws in its markets?

[mongers]

Will this virus turn out to be the 'midwife' for any revolutions or wars?

[Grey Fox]

We should remember to not trust China & add the USA to the list of untrustworthy nation.

[Tamas]

We'll probably learn about as much as from the 2008 crash. Boy, did that teach everyone a lesson!

Both Margin Call and The Big Short are excellent movies.

[Eddie Teach]

We should remember to not trust China & add the USA to the list of untrustworthy nation.

Who is trustworthy? Denmark, maybe? 

[The Brain]

We should remember to not trust China & add the USA to the list of untrustworthy nation.

Who is trustworthy? Denmark, maybe? 

Oh hell to the no.

[grumbler]

We should remember to not trust China & add the USA to the list of untrustworthy nation.

Who is trustworthy? Denmark, maybe? 

The fact that people think nations are "untrustworthy" (and, by implication, trustworthy) is kinda cute, though childish.

[The Brain]

I trust the Californian nation implicitly.

[PDH]

Thank you - we are an odd breed, but our culture and language sees us through.