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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life goes on.  After an 8 week period during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu the flu died off.  People moved on with their lives.[/quote]

This is wildly, laughably wrong.  The Spanish flu had 3 major waves in the US starting in 1918 and continuing until 1920.  The second -- which came as restrictions were being relaxed -- [b]killed most people[/b], but people were still dying from the Spanish flu in 1920.[/quote]

Killed "most people"?  Yes, the second wave was more deadly, but estimates for the total of Spanish flu deaths in the US are 0.5 to 0.8 percent of the population.  [/quote]

DP.  When an illness's mortality percentages include your own child, they become far less objective. I'm guessing you don't have a college age kid right now who is possibly returning to a campus that could become an outbreak hotspot. Which is pretty much any campus, as far as we know right now. Go on, talk about how "numbers, not fear" should always rule. Objectively true. But still not something that gets far with anyone who has a college student right now. I'm sure the families of the 60,000 people killed by Covid so far would find statistics about their loved ones' drop-in-the-bucket deaths less than calming. [/quote]

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