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The Priests of Plague

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Understanding Virology

During the first wave of the pandemic, Spain's inspector general of health Martin Salazar had lamented the inability of a bureaucratic and underfunded health system to prevent the disease from spreading. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that people did not have Kind of an ideal handle on virology virology but normal people were still not all that far off from kind of where normal people were you know during the bubonic plague Right there. There's right doctors get this stuff But like your average Joe doesn't... And we can just laugh at the simple Spaniards for failing to understand virology and isolate themselves Exactly.

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