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by oblio 2210 days ago
In 1918 they did the exact same thing, they shut stuff down : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-citie...
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> Weekly deaths per 100,000 from 1918 pandemic above the expected rate.

The 1918 with worst cities 400+ Weekly deaths per 100.000 people are not comparable with the following numbers of COVID-19. Note that covid numbers not weekly but total.

> The Johns Hopkins University looked into the number deaths per 100,000 of the population in the top-10 countries worst affected by COVID-19. Belgium had over 57,000 cases on May 25 but it had the highest number of deaths per 100,000 of its inhabitants at 81.53. By comparison, badly-hit Spain and Italy had 57.43 and 55.64 deaths per 100,000 people respectively. The U.S. has surpassed 1.5 million cases and its deaths per 100,000 inhabitants stood at 30.02 on May 25.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/2117...

The 1918 flu was awful, however Covid is nothing to sneeze at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCkVrdZVjM

Keep in mind that the graph from that video looks the way it does despite almost the entire world taking measures to prevent the spread of Covid ;-)