If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 , how would events have played differently

[xiaohuhu]

The sad truth is that in some places this still happened in 2020. I work with some school districts that spent all spring handing out packets to parents every other week because they don't have reliable internet or a device. These happen to be in poor urban areas but this is true in rural areas as well.

[FAKerOR]

This was true this year in the rural town in the Midwest that I grew up in. A lot of people still don’t have internet there and so they’ve been mailing homework packets to the kids. The kids haven’t had any instruction from a teacher in months, they only get the packets. Zoom not an option. Even for the rich kids who have internet access at home, the local internet infrastructure is not good enough for video calling.

[RainbowcityDAO]

As a software engineer, rather than remoting in, I could just dial in and download the 100-200k of source code and work on it at home. Security wasn't a real issue then. (DOS text based software).

[XIYEXIYE]

As a software engineer, rather than remoting in, I could just dial in and download the 100-200k of source code and work on it at home. Security wasn't a real issue then. (DOS text based software).

And instead of trying to work on the source with maybe a 1000 other people, your whole software team that might modify your module might be fewer than 5 people unless you worked for Microsoft.

[canyouer]

No lockdowns.

The speed we got the vaccine is straight up science fiction compared to what was possible in the 90s. Sequencing the genome alone would take ages.

Even after less than a year everyone is about at the end of their rope. In the 90s it would have to have been stretched multiple years so they would just not do it and hoped for the best.

[Cullly]

No lockdowns.

The speed we got the vaccine is straight up science fiction compared to what was possible in the 90s. Sequencing the genome alone would take ages.

Even after less than a year everyone is about at the end of their rope. In the 90s it would have to have been stretched multiple years so they would just not do it and hoped for the best.

Yeah, rememeber when the human genome project was a civilization wonder in the CIV games? With years of effor spennding 100s of million $?

Now it just $50 and takes a few hours.

We take it for granded that the chinese released the RNA "source code" of the virus within 8 weeks of the first case, and that we can test millions of people each day for the genetic structure of the virus.

[Mauser]

The sad truth is that in some places this still happened in 2020. I work with some school districts that spent all spring handing out packets to parents every other week because they don't have reliable internet or a device. These happen to be in poor urban areas but this is true in rural areas as well.

I think the bad thing in 1990 would have been that almost no one had access to the internet yet. So working from home and having school or university from home would have been much more difficult than it is today. On the otherside international travelling was not so common as it is today. So the spreading of the corona virus around the globe would have been much slower than it happened last year. Also people seemed to be more conservative back in the days and would have followed more easily the government safety rules than they are doing today.

[boyptc]

The sad truth is that in some places this still happened in 2020. I work with some school districts that spent all spring handing out packets to parents every other week because they don't have reliable internet or a device. These happen to be in poor urban areas but this is true in rural areas as well.

It is the sad truth that some poor rural areas can't cope up with the modern technology just to kill time in facing with the pandemic.

TV sets would be the only pastime that most of the people will have if it happens in the 90s. They get to watch fake news and inaccurate counts of toll just as what we have today.