A Century Later
The way pandemics were handled in the past could be a valuable lesson for responding to Covid-19. Health considerations should be prioritized when making decisions.
Tempo
May 19, 2020
A century has passed, but the way we respond to pandemics has not really moved forward. A century after the plague and Spanish flu struck this archipelago, there are still anti-science people. As was the case a hundred years ago, a tardy response from the government to this pandemic and inconsistency and confusion from public officials has cost many lives.
The plague and Spanish flu struck the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the 1900s. The
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