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This is interesting.

"Which raises the question: why was this different? We will be trying to figure this one out for decades.

Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets? Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life? Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables? Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world’s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people?

Maybe all of these were factors. Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work, as the conspiracy theorists would have it.

Regardless, they all have some explaining to do. "

Either the author is an idiot or he thinks we are.


"In comparison to other pandemics, the Hong Kong flu yielded a low death rate. [6]

This pandemic struck in two waves with the second wave being deadlier than the first in most places.[9]

The same virus returned the following years: a year later, in late 1969 and early 1970, and in 1972. The total worldwide death toll is estimated to have been in the region of one million people."

That pandemic started in 1968 and ended in 1972. It took 3 years to reach 1 million world wide deaths.

Had the spread of Covid 19 been left unchecked we would have passed 100K deaths in April.

In the 4 months since the first reported Covid 19 case in mid January the US has suffered nearly twice the number of deaths from Covid 19 than the CDC assigns to complete 1968-1969 flu season.
"CDC states that the historic 1968-9 "Hong Kong flu" pandemic killed 34 000 Americans. "
https://aspe.hhs.gov/cdc-%E2%80%94-influenza-deaths-request-correction-rfc

PS The flu season had ended before the Woodstock festival and started up again at the end of September 1969.