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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by swader999 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:27AM (#27191258)
The 68 flu killed between 1-4 million, so the high end in that one would be comparable to what we see with covid.
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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by katbyte on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:56AM (#27191634)
1-4 that didn’t shutdown the wold isn’t comparable to covid nearing 4 million verified and likely far higher despite many actions and lockdowns taken. I’d much rather have lived through a 68 flu then covid thank you
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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by swader999 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:33AM (#27191820)
The 68 was a lot more deadly amongst the young. Shutting the world was a political decision not a fact of the virus' behavior.
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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by Godel_unicode on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:57PM (#27197562)
In 1968:

- The population was much less densely gathered

- The world population was roughly half what it is today

- There was much less air travel

- Testing was much worse

- Statistics about mortality were much less evenly gathered

There are worse things than lockdown.

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