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Re:Now Monkeypox by flavius29663 on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:59PM (#31482586)
Probably not, there have been countless outbreaks and epidemics in the past, all got some attention and media scare. But we haven't had a pandemic since 1920s, so I would bet on the 99.9% chance of it being just a media scare, rather than a new pandemic.
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Re:Now Monkeypox by wwweston on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:13PM (#31482845)
This was certainly my bet in January and February 2020 -- "this is like H1N1, it won't be that bad" or "it'll be like SARS and be contained."
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Re:Now Monkeypox by chaosite on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:02PM (#31482645)
You mean, haven't had a pandemic since 2020?
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Re:Now Monkeypox by kenneth on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:11PM (#31482813)
Not counting the current ongoing pandemic, the last pandemic was 2009/10's swine flu pandemic, which went on to infect 20%+ of the world's population and kill 1M+.
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Re:Now Monkeypox by flavius29663 on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:08PM (#31482754)
there were zero pandemics for 100 years between 1920s and 2020s
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Re:Now Monkeypox by kenneth on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:13PM (#31482856)
That's complete BS. Swine flu was a full blown pandemic barely a decade a ago and HIV is still ongoing one.
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Re:Now Monkeypox by mdp2021 on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:26PM (#31484945)
> pandemics... between 1920s and 2020s

1956-58, 1968, 1981- ...

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