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The measures that were taken were primarily to care for the sick and keep the healthy away from the sick. How that was actually enforced and produced other than trying to reduce contact, trying to reduce public events, I have no idea. There was, in many cities, urban city bans on public meetings, and the reduction of public attendance at various affairs that would have otherwise been very well attended. But I think, for one thing, the consistent inability to predict when the epidemic was going to increase and decrease, the absence of really strong epidemiological evidence, or a strong team of epidemiologists to participate in this, left the public pretty well disarmed.
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