Seeing how I was living in Toronto when SARS1 hit the city (or rather, when it hit a few hospitals) back in 2003, and how on subsequent trips to Australia I was sternly – and repeatedly – asked by customs agents if I’d ever had SARS, you'd be excused for thinking that when official and unofficial stories about SARS2 in China started dribbling out in January of 2020 that I'd have made comparisons with its first iteration. But that's not what happened at all. Because what immediately went through my head was the following:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ff2f.com/h5n1-the-monoculture-flu