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[quote=Anonymous][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]

NP: Your reading comprehension is a bit off--the "most people" is relative to the total number of people who died in the pandemic, not a reference to a broader population.  [/quote]

No my reading comprehension is fine and I understood the point, that most of the Spanish Flu victims died in the second wave.  It was the wording that was off.  "The second killed most people."  Doesn't that, as written, imply that a majority of the population died, i.e. "Most people".

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