• @[email protected]
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    78 months ago

    Spanish Flu (should be called Kansas Flu because that’s where the first case was reported), killed .6% of the population in the US. Covid was .15 %

    This would be magnitudes higher.

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      18 months ago

      Losing ~20 million would have a significant economic impact. That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country. Considering that the group (right wing lower middle class) that was determined to not follow mitigation efforts or push others to work without them we’d lose a lot of workers in the transportation and service industries, particularly in the south.

      • Sybil
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        18 months ago

        That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country.

        or just one nyc and one dallas/ft worth