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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by robotresearcher on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:08AM (#23289750)
> historically, there have been other illnesses hundreds of years ago that killed more people.

AIDS has killed around 34 million people since 1981.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by rumanator on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:11AM (#23290263)
> AIDS has killed around 34 million people since 1981.

That's on average 100k deaths per year since 1981.

Right now we are in our first quarter of covid19 and the official death count is at 340k.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by davidgould on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:27AM (#23290332)
And the response to AIDS was malicious neglect for years in many countries. A large portion of those deaths were due to bigotry.

So I suppose somewhat like the situation in the US with COVID-19 today.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by codeisawesome on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:50AM (#23290172)
That’s .. staggering.
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