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"...improved hygiene and sanitation, and less dense housing with all helped to prevent and to reduce transmission of infectious diseases."

Less dense housing - suburbs and rural areas for everyone (tee-hee!). It was this, in part, that sparked the move out of cities by those that could during COVID.

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It’s a great argument AGAINST more urban density, which runs 180-degrees counterintuitive to building for greater density and efficiency with less carbon emissions.

In other words, choose your poison to die from: more dense urban cities that reduce carbon emissions but are more prone to fostering disease, or less dense communities that increase emissions but offers more protection from disease.

Either way, we’re all gonna die—so drink up. Cheers!

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For once I have to admit you are right.

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