This is an aside: The annual deaths due to flu, covid or pneumonia since 1901 from the ONS. It's not new and no doubt it has been discussed many times before.
It's worth looking at again for historical perspective and to consider how this compares to 'normal' 'flu epidemics.
Spanish 'flu is completely off the scale dwarfing Covid.
I ask myself and you why the world has been gripped by this because in terms of death it is significant but not really that unusual. You have to think though what it would like if the world did nothing. I think the horrifying thing for us is the fear that our parents get it but we don't have the same national reaction with 'flu.
Is the response to Covid19 rational? I include myself in that as I am caught up in it as much as anyone else.
You can argue that it's because the death is carried by one social group the elderly but isn't it always with respiratory illness?
It's worth looking at again for historical perspective and to consider how this compares to 'normal' 'flu epidemics.
Spanish 'flu is completely off the scale dwarfing Covid.
I ask myself and you why the world has been gripped by this because in terms of death it is significant but not really that unusual. You have to think though what it would like if the world did nothing. I think the horrifying thing for us is the fear that our parents get it but we don't have the same national reaction with 'flu.
Is the response to Covid19 rational? I include myself in that as I am caught up in it as much as anyone else.
You can argue that it's because the death is carried by one social group the elderly but isn't it always with respiratory illness?
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