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Arkanicide 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just to illustrate how easy it is for a local outbreak to become a pandemic:

https://www.history.com/news/china-epicenter-of-1918-flu-pandemic-historian-says

Here's one talking about it hitting remote Alaska:

https://www.historynet.com/alaskan-village-holds-key-understanding-1918-spanish-flu.htm

People have become too complacent and too quickly shrug off the notion that a few bits of genetic code can wipe out humanity. It's the whole mindset of "It would never happen to me!"