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> The silver lining is by this time next year, we should have ~20% less throwaway accounts being created for comments like these. I'm trying to be charitable h

• petersellers 7y ago
  I think they mean that if a serious outbreak does occur, people will treat it more seriously next time (not that 20% of the population is going to die from Covid-19).
  • labster 7y ago
    It's gallows humor. It is based on the latest mortality rate I saw, but made the assumption of 100% infection rate among trolls. This is likely not true as they are often found indoors on their computers. With the 1918 influenza, 1.7% of the world population died, many of them young people. This was still very traumatic to society, despite the fact that Europe had done its level best to kill young men for the previous four years in the trenches. Right now, influenza has killed more than COVID-19, but people tend not to worry about that. Not new enough. About 300000 people a year die from influenza in a quiet year. Take your flu shots every year, people.