• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Spanish Flu (should be called Kansas Flu because that’s where the first case was reported), killed .6% of the population in the US. Covid was .15 %

      This would be magnitudes higher.

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        10 months ago

        Losing ~20 million would have a significant economic impact. That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country. Considering that the group (right wing lower middle class) that was determined to not follow mitigation efforts or push others to work without them we’d lose a lot of workers in the transportation and service industries, particularly in the south.

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          10 months ago

          That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country.

          or just one nyc and one dallas/ft worth