"Vaccine hesitancy" is the term for antivaxxers plus people who would not refuse in principle, but prefer to wait for more results, are too lazy or something li

"Vaccine hesitancy" is the term for antivaxxers plus people who would not refuse in principle, but prefer to wait for more results, are too lazy or something like that. The high death rate of pandemics of yore is also due to the healthcare system of yore being shit. You just couldn't properly ventilate people during the spanish flu, not to speak of ECMO or useful drugs like cortical steroids. I would guess that of those people hospitalized for COVID-19, at least half would have died back then. Of those put on a ventilator nowadays, all would have died back then. And hospitalization rates would maybe also have been higher, because where nowadays the doc sends you back to home quarantine with an asthma inhaler, back then they could just watch you suffocate...