Serious question, what if Covid had happened in 2000 instead of 2020? Specifically pre-social media, Pre-Zoom.
How would things have been different? Better or worse?
How would things have been different? Better or worse?
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What if Covid had happened in 2000 instead of 2020?
- Thread starter GromsDad
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Probably much better, the internet has made society much less governable.
Please tell us in your own words.
Who the hell would want to answer such an absolutist, binary question like that?
There is a lot of nuance and a million shades of gray within your black-and-white question. It eliminates answers like both, or neither, or maybe a little of each, or a little of this and a little more of that is true, or maybe in some places this one is more true but in other places that one is more true.
I know nuanced thoughtfulness is not currently in vogue in pubic discourse, maybe it should be.
There would be many many millions more dead people. There was no capability to rapidly develop vaccines in 2000 like there was in 2020, but the virus' capability to spread and kill was just as great. Economically we did not have the capability to be productive from home like we do now and the recession would have been much, much worse. As in Great Depression worse.
The structure of society would have been strained mightily and I'm not sure it would have held.
The structure of society would have been strained mightily and I'm not sure it would have held.
For starters I don't think lockdowns would have happened pre-zoom. I also don't think there would have been the panic without social media to perpetuate it.
It doesn't take much to collapse our health care system.
You need that to have a functional society.
That said, I got my shots and I'm ready to party!
Let the good times roll!
Vaccine passport, show me the world!
The media of 20 years ago without the benefit of social media couldn’t have created the panic they did over a bad flu season.
