Historic bias --- We never had a pandemic before. We had epidemics. It's very common that historicians asimilate european plage with a pandemic just because most of them tend to think Europa is the world. In America, for example, we had an epidemic that killed millions after colonization but it's not considered a pandemic and almost not mentioned in history books. What is true, and I totally agree with you, is that we don't learn the lessons and a I think this is because we manage poorly these epidemics without a scientific criteria

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co