{"id":16463,"date":"2020-03-13T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16463"},"modified":"2020-03-13T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:44:53","slug":"were-all-in-this-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/were-all-in-this-together\/","title":{"rendered":"we\u2019re all in this together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">an interview with Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-pandemics-change-history\">&#8220;how pandemics change history&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>I want to start with a big question, which is: What, broadly  speaking, are the major ways in which epidemics have shaped the modern  world?<\/strong><br>One  way of approaching this is to examine how I got interested in the  topic, which was a realization\u2014I think a double one. Epidemics are a  category of disease that seem to hold up the mirror to human beings as  to who we really are. That is to say, they obviously have everything to  do with our relationship to our mortality, to death, to our lives. They  also reflect our relationships with the environment\u2014the built  environment that we create and the natural environment that responds.  They show the moral relationships that we have toward each other as people, and we\u2019re seeing that today.<\/p><p>That\u2019s one of the great  messages that the World Health Organization keeps discussing. The main  part of preparedness to face these events is that we need as human  beings to realize that we\u2019re all in this together, that what affects one person anywhere affects everyone everywhere, that we are therefore  inevitably part of a species, and we need to think in that way rather than about divisions of race and ethnicity, economic status, and all the rest of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an interview with Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, in &#8220;how pandemics change history&#8221;: I want to start with a big question, which is: What, broadly speaking, are the major ways in which epidemics have shaped the modern world?One way of approaching this is to examine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16465,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions\/16465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}