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>It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history. By percentage of global population, I beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics h
by ya_throw 5y ago
>It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
By percentage of global population, I beg to differ:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
It also overwhelmingly killed the very elderly, an age category which didn't even exist at the times of most of those other pandemics in the list.
- computerphage 5y agoThere have always been 80 and 90 year olds in society.
- sieabahlpark 5y ago
- ya_throw 5y agoFalse.
- josephcsible 5y agoSure, "didn't even exist" was an exaggeration, but you can't deny that it was a much, much smaller age category before.
- giraffe_lady 5y ago> an age category which didn't even exist at the times of most of those other pandemics in the list They exist now though? And they died, so we must count them among the dead. Nothing else makes sense here.