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Geoff Manaugh and Dr. Luigi Bertinato demonstrate PPE present and past. We've been using the term "quarantine" quite a bit since March of 2020. And the preventive lockdowns are not really quarantine, says Geoff Manaugh. He and partner Nicola Twilley know what they're talking about; they've been researching quarantines through history for years now--since well before COVID--for their book Black Death and other plagues of the past figure prominently in the book, and so does architecture: many structures have been built through the centuries to house people in quarantine. Geoff Manaugh joins...

By Lenny Picker | In How did this book originate? Manaugh: We were in Sydney back in 2009. We had just met up with a friend near a hotel originally designed as a quarantine station. Having noticed that so many former quarantine facilities were now abandoned, torn down, or converted into hotels and museums, our initial thought—ironically—was: What was quarantine? Why do people no longer seem to do it? Quarantine, we thought, was something lost to history. Of course, as soon as we began our research, we realized that it never disappeared; we just changed when and where it occur...