Remember the 1968 Hong Kong flu? It killed 100,000 Americans, was highly infectious, and vaccine development was hampered because the virus kept mutating

American Thinker ^ | 04/29/2020 | Carol Brown

[Ouchthatonehurt]

In this picture she looks like a guy... https://www.forbes.com/pictures/59f747e4a7ea436b47b489c0/olivia-nuzzi-24/#6dee35897fc0 I hereby rewind my "just this once pass" She's squarely in the Danger Zone...

[Captain Peter Blood]

I have been using this example since the beginning, the HK flu was deadly and infected over 70% of the then population and there is debate as to how many in the U.S. died , I have seen a figure as high as 215,000 deaths and 2 to 3 million worldwide. Yet no panic and no shutdown, although if we had social media then the hysteria and panic would have been as today.

[TBP]

And yet we essentially went about our lives normally. Maybe we were a little bit more careful for a while, but otherwise nothing much changed.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Was too young to remember at the time. Was that with our without lockdown measures?

See Post #27 above.

[MAGAthon]

in 1968, US population was 200 million.

[SeekAndFind]

RE:in 1968, US population was 200 million

100,000 deaths in a country of 200 million is DEVASTATING to say the least.

The difference — there was no internet, social media, instant messaging, cable news, etc. to scare the masses.