Posted on 09/03/2021 8:47:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A guy I work with tried to compare Covid to the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. A comparison just as stupid.
The Black Death was a natural phenomenom. The Covid death rate is government induced. They sent dieased people into nursing homes in NYS. They also didn’t allow treament anywhere but hospitals. Places that didn’t do that didn’t see anywhere like the same result.
The author is trying to see the up side to murder. There’s no need for that but there is a huge problem. The American people have massively deluded themselves about transfer payments to seniors, and the disabled and the poor, and the unemployed etc. etc. etc.
It’s easy to see why socialism leads to mass murder.
Pandemic Death Toll by % of Population Year of Population Estimate
Black Death 51.0% 1300
Plague of Justinian 19.1% 500
Smallpox 12.1% 1500
Antonine Plague 2.6% 200
Spanish Flu 2.5% 1919
The Third Plague 1.0% 1850
HIV/AIDS 0.7% 1981
COVID-19 0.03% 2021 (as of March 15)
CDC Covid-19 Survival Rates as of 10/2020
Age 0-19 — 99.997%
Age 20-49 — 99.98%
Age 50-69 — 99.5%
Age 70+ — 94.6%
80%+ of the deaths are people 65 and older.
About 12% 55-64
You are probably right about Social Security savings. On the other hand do we have developed statistics about the average medical costs for a Covid death or how many don’t die but spend weeks or even a month or more in a hospital? Drug companies an medical service companies are raking in the money. Many young people have lost people they loved who had a positive effect on their lives, ended up loosing chunks from their estate as bills had to be paid, and paying for mental health help and addiction treatment.
First of all check out my Comment 24. Also, I am currently reading Barbara Tuckman’s, A Distant Mirror. It covers the 1300s which suffered so from the Black Death. The social Dislocation was horrible, and all segments of society were fighting each other thru thet Century. To some degree I see that happening currently.
There seems to be need to try and create a resonance between a person current life and some terrible event of the past.
I read a 60s “anti-war protester” who wanted to claim the Vietnam War was a destructive to their generation as World War 1 was that generation
It wans’t
Covid-19 is no where near in significance to either the Black Death or the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
I understand why people think that since the “reporting” on it has been pure garbage.
“no decent person would wish to see anyone suffer and die”
It’s precisely that sort of BS that has robbed Americans of the will to fight the left.
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