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I would also love more data on this, preferably before the next pandemic.

There was data from many flu pandemics. It led to the standard public health recommendation being against school closures. One more thing that just got tossed out without a moments thought for COVID. And no, COVID is not so novel that all prior knowledge of viruses and respiratory disease became irrelevant.

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Calling it "novel" gave a lot of these "experts" a hell of a lot of artistic liberty to make up crap. "There is just so much we don't know about covid" they'd say even a year and a half into this. Like fuck that is true. You telling me that covid is so unique that everything we've learned about viruses and respiratory disease needed to be tossed right out the window?

Calling covid "novel" is only true in some pedantic, insider-talk sense.

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