pandemics

Ancient Pandemics

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 17, 2024

I am not a historian of the ancient world so I have no real ability to evaluate these claims, but I wanted to highlight this Bulletin of Atomic Scientists piece by the ancient historian Colin Elliott. The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was...

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Have We Learned Anything about the Connections between Work and Pandemics?

By Erik Loomis

On May 13, 2024

Ha ha, of course not, free market baby! Even as it has become increasingly clear that the bird flu outbreak on the nation’s dairy farms began months earlier — and.

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Is the Pandemic Over?

By Erik Loomis

On September 20, 2022

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Ro Si I support that suggestion, even in a world where Notre Dame exists.
Bucs-Ducks Open Thread · October 13, 2024
DocAmazing Treat yourself well, Major. I am very sorry.
Bucs-Ducks Open Thread · October 13, 2024
Felix D. lol, Buchanan II has no idea how to deal with any of that shit, he can't even get as far with it as Brazil did
Is our media learning? (unironic for once) · October 13, 2024
ScottK Where I've seen 'steelmanning' (or 'steelbotting' to avoid sexist language) be valuable is when someone has made a bad case for an idea that should be dismissed, but in its...
Is our media learning? (unironic for once) · October 13, 2024
Feralist Remember what happened spontaneously during the beginning of the pandemic when TFG’s administration fell on its fingers. The rational western states as well as the rational eastern states organized...
Trump issues another memo from Turner’s diary · October 13, 2024