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To: bigdaddy45

“Its not the Spanish Flu by any means, and your odds of demise are still very low, but its still a roll of the dice.”

Total approximate USA deaths during the 1918 Pandemic was about 700,000 (about what Covid 19 is now). We are about 3.5 times the population now (325 million vs. 102 million).

About 0.7% of Americans died back then. Right now we are at about 0.2%. Hopefully we aren’t in for a terrible rise in Covid this winter, but.... :(


100 posted on 09/21/2021 9:31:34 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

Covid spiked last winter into the spring

It appears to have a Flu like seasonality

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths


106 posted on 09/21/2021 9:44:38 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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