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also in the 70s people would not even have "noticed" covid. back then people could not even be bothered to use seatbelts or stop chainsmoking (even in airplanes
by dinkblam 1y ago
also in the 70s people would not even have "noticed" covid. back then people could not even be bothered to use seatbelts or stop chainsmoking (even in airplanes).
what is considered "acceptable risk" has completely changed in the past few decades.
- gosub100 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Philadelphia_Legionnaires%27_disease_outbreak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Philadelphia_Legionnair... 1976 new illness appeared, CDC did a full investigation, identified the cause.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoIn 1976 there was the H1N1 outbreak which only caused 1 death and 13 hospitalizations but lead to a massive vaccination campaign for tens of millions of Americas, so yeah, they would have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
- brookst 1y agoThere were 3 million excess deaths in the US alone from Covid, even with drastic efforts to reduce. I assure you, it would have been noticed in the 1970’s the same way the 1918 influenza pandemic was.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThat’s also because they had much healthier weights and were on average a decade younger.
- ejolto 1y agoThe 1968 "Hong Kong flu" had a similar case fatality rate and they certainly noticed that.