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" ... Cities afflicted by massive poverty have long been primary breeders of disease. Plagues and pestilences were commonplace in the earliest urban centers, from ancient Greece and Rome to Baghdad, Beijing and Cairo. Cut off often from clean water, living cheek to jowl, large cities were often assaulted, and sometimes all but emptied, by waves of infectious diseases. Rome’s sewer system may have been well ahead of its time, but the higher floors in buildings lacked plumbing hookups, which made this system less than effective in stemming disease. ... "
" ... Ken Burns: There are many instances in our past where disease has run through places—Native American villages, frontier settlements, things like that. We’ve suffered outbreaks of smallpox, diphtheria and other pestilences where if you got sick, there was little chance at survival. But this situation is entirely unique. In the Second World War, which required the same kind of national mobilization, the fight wasn’t happening here. Today the war is happening here, and the enemy is a tiny virus. ... "