"Add now the communications between the peoples, today so numerous and more and more rapid; the navigation by steamship, the railways, and on top of that this happy tendency of the populations to visit each other, to mix, to merge, a tendency that seems to make of different peoples a sole and large family, and you will be forced to admit that for such a disease, so widespread and under these conditions, cordons and quarantines are not only powerless and useless, but they are, in the very great majority of cases, impossible." - A delegate to the International Sanitary Conference regarding cholera, 1851 The word "unprecedented" describes something that has never happened before. I wouldn't be surprised if it's 2020's Word of the Year. Politicians are constantly referring to the "unprecedented circumstances" we find ourselves in, and the "unprecedented measures" taken to combat the coronavirus. But, as Professor Deepak Kumar (perhaps sli...
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