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* Because it was a century ago * Because we have public agencies watching for this * Because it's a rare event We didn't forget. We dealt with it.
by scarejunba 8y ago
* Because it was a century ago
* Because we have public agencies watching for this
* Because it's a rare event
We didn't forget. We dealt with it.
- ghaff 8y agoYou're not wrong. But what people tend to mean is that for an event that killed so many people in the not really dim past, people as a whole are relatively unaware of it. It probably killed fewer than the Black Death (of a significantly larger population) but the number of victims was of the same order of magnitude.
- boulos 8y agoBut that's precisely because percentages are what matter, right? The Black Death wiped out a big chunk of Europe at the time (25% plus). While the Spanish Flu killed 100M people, the world simply was much larger 600 years later. Only Samoa was as badly hit (in percentage terms) by the flu as all of Europe was by the plague. Lots of people got sick, and it was a worldwide pandemic, but the black death was much more deadly.