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Mine was a chocolate brown color. As much as my sister and I pleaded, my parents steadfastly resisted getting those “newfangled” push-button phones, so the moment I moved out and into my first place, getting my own was a no-brainer. I don’t remember exactly when I got rid of it other than it was many years after I moved to San Francisco…
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Human beings do not want to be covered in body bags while they are still breathing.” ~ Yasmine Mohammed
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It was a question Ben posed at lunch today.
If COVID happened in the 80s, I think it would’ve been addressed much more aggressively. (Let’s leave HIV out of the discussion for now since at the time it affected a smaller population and it was a population of—let’s face it—”undesirables” and forty years later there is still no vaccine against it.
The anti-max movement hadn’t taken hold in the 80s. Similarly, there was no internet to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories. Surely such things still existed back then; they just didn’t have the global reach they do now.
At the same time, since there was no internet, people wouldn’t be working from home; they’d wither not be working at all, or they’d be forced to work in person, thereby increasing the rate of transmission until the population had been sufficiently inoculated. In either case I still believe commerce would’ve ground to a halt much like it did during the first few months of our own pandemic. I won’t go so far to say the threat would’ve been eliminated any more quickly than it is currently happening, but we wouldn’t be facing this widespread resistance and denial we are now which is slowing the eradication of COVID down.
What do y’all think?
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