News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Programming in the Apocalypse. Parent comment

Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by tasuki on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:13AM (#31566586)
Yes, lots of people worked very hard to make the outcome better. I'm grateful to them for helping protect my aged relations. They did make a difference.

With that out, the Covid-19 pandemic, even without any measures at all, was still incredibly mild. Wikipedia says 0.1-0.3% global population lost [0]. It would have been I don't know, perhaps 0.5% without measures? Compare to the other pandemics on that list, you routinely see ones that wipe out 20-50% of the regional population - now that is significantly bad.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by astrange on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:46AM (#31567316)
Those other pandemics are before we had any ability to defend ourselves or even know what was going on.

SARS-1 and MERS are quite fatal too but we stopped them from spreading.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Programming in the Apocalypse by tasuki on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:36PM (#31573126)
> Those other pandemics are before we had any ability to defend ourselves or even know what was going on.

Yes, of course. And I'm simply adding that Covid-19 would be nowhere as bad as those even if we had no ability to defend ourselves.

[ Parent | on HN ]