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If you have particularly useful historical information to hand then it would probably better to share it rather than hint at its existence.
by tome 7y ago
If you have particularly useful historical information to hand then it would probably better to share it rather than hint at its existence.
- throwaway8941 7y agoHere's a useful index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
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- WJW 7y agoEveryone who had history in high school has historical information about this. There have been numerous plagues throughout history with higher infectivity, higher lethality, and both relatively and absolutely higher death counts. Don't put the burden of looking up simple and easily findable information on other posters when you can easily google it yourself.
- tome 7y agoThere is a lot of misinformation out there too, and not everyone has the skills to "easily Google" for something outside of their sphere of competence. It would be helpful if those who do have hard facts to share do so directly. That's much more efficient than hoping that everyone will simply discover the facts as a matter of course.
- varjag 7y ago…and many of these would have infectivity and lethality similar to coronavirus if same standard of sanitary, containment effort and intensive care was available then.
- jamesrcole 7y ago> Everyone who had history in high school has historical information about this I don't recall any such information. There's people on this site of all different ages, who grew up in all sorts of different places. How do you know what their high-school history covered? In my school, history was mandatory in the first year of high-school, and I think it might have been in the second year as well. Hardly anyone did it as a subject for the remainder of their high-school years. Needless to say, the content taught in those first 1-2 years barely even scratched the surface of historical topics.
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- saiya-jin 7y agoWhat kind of backwardish 3rd world country are you from that you never heard in school terms like 'black death', 'spanish flu'? Even if you didn't, I've noticed it in practically all possible media hundreds of times in all possible topics.
- jamesrcole 7y agoRegarding your second paragraph, I never said that I’d never heard the terms. I said that they weren’t covered in high school history for me. There’s so many topics that can be covered in high-school history classes, and so little actual aggregate time for those classes - why would you expect those topics be amongst them? Also, why do you think that criticising such history classes, and the country they're in, somehow negates the point i made?
- allovernow 7y agoYou should read about R0 and CFR estimates for recent publications our of China. Conservative estimates put this well past Spanish Flu territory. That doesn't even get into the various rumors coming from the weaker papers.
- JimDabell 7y agoThe Spanish Flu infected a quarter of the world's population and killed 50 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu