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A comment on ‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague (2015). Parent comment

Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by dTal on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:40AM (#22545722)
>Our grandparents lived through worse

Holy sampling bias, Batman! Our ancestors survived the K-T extinction event too.

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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by brink on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:51AM (#22545816)
I'll take COVID-19 over Polio.
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Re:‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague ... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:12AM (#22546469)
Which is unfortunate for many of the boomers - they get both!
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