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The last post is the WINNER!

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
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sun rise

The world is on fire
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And by the way, this is a historical win
The 432-year-old manual on social distancing

Initially, the measures were extremely unpopular, and the public wanted to lynch him. But as more people died, they came round – and he was fully entrusted with the task of containing the outbreak. Years later, he published a booklet, Ectypa Pestilentis Status Algheriae Sardiniae, detailing the 57 rules he had imposed upon the city. Here's what he did.

Lockdowns

First, citizens were advised not to leave their houses, or move from one to another. Along these lines, Angelerio also forbade all meetings, dances and entertainments – and stipulated that only one person per household should leave to do the shopping, a rule that should be familiar to many enduring pandemic restrictions today.
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Physical distancing

Next up was the six-foot-rule, in which Angelerio instructed that – as translated by Benedictow's team – "People allowed to go out must bear with them a cane measuring six feet long. It is mandatory that people keep this distance from one another."

Washing your shopping
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Health passports

One popular way to prevent the plague from turning up was to carefully check the health status of anyone who wanted to enter a city. Though the system failed at Alghero, where the 1582 outbreak's patient zero slipped past the guards stationed at the port, it was common elsewhere in Europe at the time.
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Quarantine
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
No bear on RF?
It would wither away due to disinterest.

or become overpopulated and impossible to navigate due to the lack of mysterious disappearances....and just THINK of the dangerous pick-a-nick basket problem due to lack of inspections
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
or become overpopulated and impossible to navigate due to the lack of mysterious disappearances....and just THINK of the dangerous pick-a-nick basket problem due to lack of inspections
Some of us would conduct a kinder and gentler inspection.
 
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