Post #3636334
2024-10-13 13:11 UTC
... The best analogy to the COVID outbreak is the H2N2 Asian flu pandemic that swept around the world in the fall of 1957. Asian flu caused more disease and a much higher death rate, especially in younger people, than COVID. Asian flu killed between one million and two million people in a matter of a few months in a world population one-third the size of today's. That's the equivalent of three million to six million deaths today, many more than from COVID. ...
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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2024-10-13 13:13
... Asian flu was a tragedy, but it wasn't a crisis, because 60 years ago people responded differently. Some modest control measures were taken, but they were very temporary. The world moved on." So, the obvious untruths: 1. 3 to 5 million deaths during Asian flu is worse than COVID. COVID is at 30 million dead. So this moron got that wrong. It was May 2020 when he said it. So he was mouthing off, not knowing where things would end, the idiot.