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Interesting that way fewer people died after the 1918 pandemic. I assume it "weeded out" all the people who were likely to die soon anyway, but what's more inte
by StavrosK 5y ago
Interesting that way fewer people died after the 1918 pandemic. I assume it "weeded out" all the people who were likely to die soon anyway, but what's more interesting is that the negative bar seems to be longer than the positive one, which would somehow mean that the pandemic saved lives? Very odd.
- Jtsummers 5y ago1918 was also during WWI. While they mark that with the pandemic, are they including US service member deaths during the war in death totals? I'm trying to find a breakdown by year, but the total US deaths from the war was around 100k. Even taking them as evenly distributed over 1914-1918 (inaccurate) that's 20k extra deaths in each of those years.
- caddemon 5y agoAssuming it's not just noise, could be that technology developed or cultural norms changed because of the pandemic saved some lives down the line. Also, weren't deaths in the first year of life much more common back then? Maybe there were just significantly less people having kids right after the pandemic.