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Jan. 13th, 2021 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellwayI wanted to title this "And hoped by stretching tall that they might keep their land/Their home, their hearth, their flesh and soul", but it doesn't quite fit in the title box.
[cw: illness]
My law textbook: In the 1890s, England was plagued by two related phenomena: an influenza epidemic and quack medicine.
Me: uh, yeah, about that...
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We're still standing in a hole, but *wow* is it a lot shallower than it used to be.
(God, can you imagine? Not knowing anything about what you're up against--not even being sure if it's *contagious* or not--just you and your phenol against a mysterious and hostile world. *shudders*)
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(Yes, I know it's by no means certain that the 1889 pandemic was a coronavirus, but honestly that adds to the point. If 1889 researchers had had the ability to *tell us* what kind of pathogen it was, we wouldn't have to wonder now.)
[cw: illness]
My law textbook: In the 1890s, England was plagued by two related phenomena: an influenza epidemic and quack medicine.
Me: uh, yeah, about that...
---
We're still standing in a hole, but *wow* is it a lot shallower than it used to be.
(God, can you imagine? Not knowing anything about what you're up against--not even being sure if it's *contagious* or not--just you and your phenol against a mysterious and hostile world. *shudders*)
---
(Yes, I know it's by no means certain that the 1889 pandemic was a coronavirus, but honestly that adds to the point. If 1889 researchers had had the ability to *tell us* what kind of pathogen it was, we wouldn't have to wonder now.)
