It's absolutely horrific to bring up Native American populations considering the estimates on population loss range from 25% to 90% with most folks erring towar

It's absolutely horrific to bring up Native American populations considering the estimates on population loss range from 25% to 90% with most folks erring toward the 90% end of the range. As terrible as COVID has been we're no where near the level where - as a middle aged person with kids and parents[1] - it's expected that you'll be the only one to survive out of your extended family. Estimates about the fatality of COVID put it way below the small pox epidemic in North America but that's an absolutely terrible example to draw on. 1. Assume your parents had two children - you both married and had two kids - that's ten people so choose one to survive (obviously epidemics don't actually work this way, but I've found it's the clearest way to demonstrate proportional mortality rates.