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The Covid 19 crisis certainly feels unprecedented, and in most ways it is. Never has the world faced a health crisis that has moved so quickly across continents, over whelming complex health care systems, and putting entire economies on hold. But this isn't the first pandemic the globe has faced, and it likely won't be the last.  Historians of the medicine know that pandemics and epidemics are social phenomena. As a result, their ending happen in two ways. There is the medical conclusion of a pandemic, when disease incidence goes down and death rates plummet. But there is also the social end, when fear of the infection decreases and social restrictions ease. Crucially, you can have one without the other. The only way to prevent the spread of a highly contagious virus is to isolate people from one another, something we must learn from the quick spread of other illnesses.  The rates could stay the same, but people get sick and tired of restrictions. Or rates could go down, but pe