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Re:The death of corporate research labs by varjag on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:46AM (#23257731)
COVID-1970 would be a lot slower in the spread due to much less globalized world. The West probably would still not have experienced it, neither the Soviet Bloc due to then fresh Sino-Soviet split and heavily militarized border.
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Re:The death of corporate research labs by AmericanChopper on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:59AM (#23257810)
I think the Spanish flu might not agree with that assessment. Both plagues also did a pretty good job of spreading to pretty much all territories that had any form of contact at the time.
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Re:The death of corporate research labs by varjag on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:04AM (#23257840)
IMO the better example was 1957 Asian flu pandemic. It also started in China in December-February, but was not yet registered in the West as of May.

It also never crossed the Iron Curtain into Warsaw Pact countries.

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