Corona Man wrote:Trader wrote:Corona Man wrote:Are the viruses similar though?
No idea.
The spanish flu killed 50m people, out of a world population of 2B, so 2.5% of the world's population.
Covid has killed 4.6m people, out of a world population of 7B, so 0.065% of the world's population.
So was the spanish flu 38 times more deadly? (Noting Covid will knock off a few more people before we are done).
Or have the preventative measures we've introduced saved 37 out of every 38 expected deaths.
The truth? No one will ever know.
Good post. I think you are correct re the preventive measures.
I just want it over.
Google 1917 slum housing, and then read the the following in the style of Monty Pythons "what have the Romans ever done for us":
so yeah sanitation, running water, low density housing, health and safety regulations in work place, reduced working hours (potential for contacts, reduced school class sizes, better diets, improved infection control practices in health care, anti-viral drugs, antibiotics to cure the bacterial infections that result from the initial viral infection.
if this was 100 years ago with COVID we would have people going around each day saying, "Bring out your dead"
If you want further proof that this is more than "just flu"
The fact we've basically lockdown our borders, introduce significant isolation practices across Australia, increased the prevalence of PPE (masks) in public and introduced hand sanitising stations in basically every business and promoted the practice of hand washing, this has basically eliminated the season flu but COVID still gets transmitted demonstrates that this is not just another Flu.