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> We can reasonably say the Black Death killed 30% of Europe's population. We can't reasonably say covid won't do the same I was going along, nodding my head i
by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
> We can reasonably say the Black Death killed 30% of Europe's population. We can't reasonably say covid won't do the same
I was going along, nodding my head in agreement until this. Do you realize how bad medical care was during that era? Hygiene? Knowledge of how to slow transmission in a community (we Americans have not yet even BEGUN to really take COVID seriously)? Do you realize how vastly more deadly than Black Death that COVID will have to become to cause a 30% death rate among the general population? It's absurd.
- silicon2401 5y ago> It's absurd. People said that about the idea that covid would become a pandemic too, you just proved my point.
- jstanley 5y agoThat doesn't prove your point at all. The fact that someone disagrees with you doesn't prove you're right.
- silicon2401 5y agoIt's one thing to say something is unlikely; to completely dismiss it out of hand without acknowledging there could be a chance is exactly what I was talking about originally.