Spanish Flu hit the world around 1918. Global population at the time was about 2,000,000,000 and it killed perhaps 50,000,000. And, typically, young healthy people died from it far more than older people. In other words: much, much worse than this COVID thing.
And in 1918 people basically muddled through. Didn't have much choice because medicine wasn't all that advanced. But they did OK. I had relatives who talk about WWI and they talked about the Great Depression. They never talked about Spanish Flu. It was a footnote. Stuff happens, you get past it. Spanish Flu was not an existential crisis, and COVID certainly is not.
But world governments panicked over COVID and threw everything in the dumpster. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
> But world governments panicked over COVID and threw everything in the dumpster. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
To be fair, Western governments these days are managing Post-Christian societies full of pampered hedonists who place their own personal survival above all other considerations.
False comparison.
Hygiene and medicine were primitive compared to today.
And you don’t die of the virus, you die of the secondary bacterial infection.
There were no antibiotics during the Spanish flu.
Today we have all kinds of effective antibacterial treatments.