Hawktawk wrote:Bottom line this stuff is the shits and a plague on the earth . Biblical proportions . Scary
I agree that it's a scary pandemic, but it doesn't hold a candle to past plagues.
There's been about 5 million deaths worldwide from Covid. The Spanish Flu, from 1918-1920, killed an estimated 50 million, and when you consider the population increase since then, an even more dramatic percentage of the population.
In the 14th century, the Bubonic Plague killed 25%-60% of the European continent, had a 10% mortality rate if treated, a 30%-90% rate if untreated.
I'm not trying to diminish the seriousness of the pandemic, but it is far from biblical proportions.