What I never find in these analyses of previous epidemics is how the influence of monetary rewards is keeping the current pandemic ‘in play’.. or the suppression of other drugs that can destroy the virus..or the total blackout of information that can help defeat the pandemic.
Well yes, that is another factor.
Mentioned here but ignored as a compounding factor for today, is the “travel”. We have vastly more travel than back in 1919. Not only technology that makes it easy, but so many different cultures in our own society who insist on going back to their hellholes (I’ve complained of this long before SARS2…realized it between my new work and sons school) regularly. Stuff today spreads more easily simply because people travel more and bring disease with them.