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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:55AM (#22545373)
That's survivorship bias, though. Those of us whose grandparents didn't live through it were never born and aren't here to voice their opinion.
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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by jungturk on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:08AM (#22545948)
The mortality rates suggest that many of those who succumbed to the Spanish flu would have died after having children.

http://www.influenzavirusnet.com/1918-flu-pandemic/mortality...

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