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By letting people die. If covid came around in the 1200s, then everyone would have gotten it and ~3% of the world population would have died. Definitely subopti
by dahfizz 5y ago
By letting people die. If covid came around in the 1200s, then everyone would have gotten it and ~3% of the world population would have died. Definitely suboptimal but nowhere near an extinction event.
- jtc331 5y agoGiven COVID’s risk/age relationship and already lower life spans in that time period plus higher vitamin D exposure rates it’s quite likely rate of death would have been lower in that population.
- nradov 5y agoThe infection fatality rate was never as high as 3%. The CDC estimated it at 0.6% back when almost no one was vaccinated.
- astura 5y agoNobody said it was? The question was about a world without modern medicine. It's totally reasonable to speculate there would be a higher fatality rate without medical intervention keeping people from dying.