Re:Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
by seanmcdirmid on Monday March 16, 2020 @05:26PM
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Looking through Wikipedia, only one congress person was known to die of Spanish flu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Edwin_Meeker), so I don’t think the numbers will get up enough in this pandemic to effect someone high profile in government.
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Re:Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
by lettergram on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:49PM
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Spanish flu didn’t impact elderly nearly as much nor, at the time, was the government so elderly on average. The death rates for those in their 60s and above seem to be much greater than those younger