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“Death in Hamburg” by Richard J Evans. A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. Evans gives a historical epic unfolding in a grand Dickensian narrative, set in a Victorian-era bleak house of indescribable inequities on the backdrop of the satanic mills of a post-industrial revolution landscape. 5/5
10:33 PM - Mar 25, 2023
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It reads like it was written for the COVID age, and it is surprising to find it was first published in 1987, at the height of the HIV pandemic. The book is equally a commentary on the rise of neoliberal Thatcherism in Britain and its adoption of decentralised laissez-faire economics.
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10:36 PM - Mar 25, 2023
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In response to Satoshi Akima.
It was the same laissez-faire economic ideology that, to disastrous effect, had dominated the decision-making of the ruling Hamburg merchant clique at the time of the 1892 Hamburg cholera epidemic. It contrasted to centralised public health policy in Berlin, where no outbreak occurred.
10:38 PM - Mar 25, 2023
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In response to Satoshi Akima.
The 1892 cholera outbreak should never have happened—they already “had all the tools” to prevent it with public health interventions. Only political forces moved to undermine an emerging scientific consensus around germ theory. History has simply forgotten the lessons from this failure
10:40 PM - Mar 25, 2023
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