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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by gvjddbnvdrbv on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:53AM (#22566533)
Of course it was. We built battleships in weeks then.
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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by greedo on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:21AM (#22567422)
Not quite. We built Liberty ships in extremely fast timeframes, but more substantial ships took far longer. The long lead time components could take a year or more.
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