Still not the Spanish Flu

DoogieMcDoogerson

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

LoneStarDawg

Full blown AIDS feels disrespected

YellowSnow

Tough to compare though. State of medicine was quite different in 1918- 19.

GrundleStiltzkin

YellowSnow said:

Tough to compare though. State of medicine was quite different in 1918- 19.

Very true. Conversely, social velocity far higher now.

GDS

GrundleStiltzkin said:

YellowSnow said:

Tough to compare though. State of medicine was quite different in 1918- 19.

Very true. Conversely, social velocity far higher now.

Conditions in 1917-1918 were also pretty optimal for the spread of a pandemic with WW1 reaching the 4th Q

MikeDamone

They probably didn't know about social distancing

Bob_C

How did they slow down the Russian flu without mass testing?

GrundleStiltzkin

Bob_C said:

How did they slow down the Russian flu without mass testing?

Mass execution, natch

GrundleStiltzkin

GDS said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

YellowSnow said:

Tough to compare though. State of medicine was quite different in 1918- 19.

Very true. Conversely, social velocity far higher now.

Conditions in 1917-1918 were also pretty optimal for the spread of a pandemic with WW1 reaching the 4th Q

Yes, hard to tell. Turn a doughboy (ILTCTT) loose from a crowded processing station to a farm in Nebraska connected by nothing more than dirt roads.

MikeDamone

It's not the FLU!!!!

GrundleStiltzkin

MikeDamone said:

It's not the FLU!!!!

You said it, brother

PostGameOrangeSlices

Spanish Flu is racist

PurpleThrobber

MikeDamone said:

It's not the FLU!!!!

Do Kurds catch the flu?