“off the hook for developing something that makes Hitler’s holocaust look puny.”
Please get serious. Around 650,000 have died of it in about the last 30 years. By contrast, more died in auto accidents, heart disease is the runaway winner. AIDs killed roughly a similar number to prostate cancer. that’s across
And Hitler? in about 6 years killed at least 15 million. Not in warfare, but in simple cold blooded murder. AIDs does not make the holocaust look puny. And Hitler is embarrassed by Stalin and Mao.
35 million world-wide have died from the failure to quarantine the disease. It certainly would have been “extreme” to quarantine San Francisco but 35 million dead is also extreme so it’s worth a discussion on the topic of extremism.
It’s also extreme ( but quantified true ) to make a comparison with Hitler’s holocaust, I’ll grant you that, but such a comparison will bring the downplayers out to claim falsely that only a few thousand died from the failure to quarantine aids so we have interesting dichotomies of extremism going on.