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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLesson from 1918 re: mask wearing.
675,000 Americans died of Spanish flu. We're nearing 900,000 American deaths with Covid-19.
Was it the same stubborn/libertarian/anti-government streak? Are we less healthy than 100 years ago? The result of conspiracy theories overriding science? Or something else?
Maybe we should have thrown certain anti-science types into a for profit prison...
pidge
(274 posts)In 1918 there were no antivirals, no ventilators--very little of what we consider modern medicine.
So, sure. On a pure numbers comparison, the current pandemic isn't as deadly.
But I'm not sure that's the precisely correct comparison.
Mariana
(14,857 posts)if we had 1918 medical knowledge and technology?
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)Response to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)
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BlackSkimmer
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(51,308 posts)Youve got a live one on your thread.
phylny
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(51,308 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)But I'm sure nowhere near the level of stupid that we have now. The propaganda circulating on social media is quite insane.