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Impressive that to find an obviously worse year, they have to go back a millennium and half.

• rossdavidh 5y ago
  1918-1919 were most definitely worse. The flupandemic had about 3x the per-capita death rate in the US, and we weren't even the worst hit, and the flupandemic wasn't even the thing people were most worried about in 1918. Immediately after the end of WW1, civil wars broke out in multiple parts of central Europe. Much worse about a century ago.
• MisterSandman 5y ago
  2020/2021 are only candidates for the worst year in the last ~50 years or so, in my opinion. WW1/WW2 were probably much, much worse to live through. They impacted basically everyone negatively (one of the reasons being most men in most countries were drafted). The pandemic had more of a K-curved graph, were a decent proportion of the population wasn't as negatively impacted, and might have actually had improved.
• Pooge 5y ago
  What about 1347? Or 1816? Or 1914 and the 40 years that followed? Worse years did exist.