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COVID-1970 would be a lot slower in the spread due to much less globalized world. The West probably would still not have experienced it, neither the Soviet Bloc
by varjag 6y ago
COVID-1970 would be a lot slower in the spread due to much less globalized world. The West probably would still not have experienced it, neither the Soviet Bloc due to then fresh Sino-Soviet split and heavily militarized border.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoI think the Spanish flu might not agree with that assessment. Both plagues also did a pretty good job of spreading to pretty much all territories that had any form of contact at the time.
- varjag 6y agoIMO the better example was 1957 Asian flu pandemic. It also started in China in December-February, but was not yet registered in the West as of May. It also never crossed the Iron Curtain into Warsaw Pact countries.