Imagine saying that for another disease. "We're sorry that your parents are dying of tuberculosis, but look on the positive side - if we were living in the 1920s you'd probably die too!"
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57 and 68 weren’t even particularly severe compared to the flu seasons in those decades. There have been interpandemic flu season causing far higher mortality burden than 57 and 68. 1951 flu hit England so bad that it was comparable to 1918. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/4/05-0695_article …pic.twitter.com/zc8rLueMOt
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Wow, thanks for sharing, fascinating
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Well they are different viruses, with different fatality rates if left untreated, so surely covid becoming only as deadly as those thanks to treatments would indeed reflect an advance in medicine? Am I missing something?
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But more generally: what is, respectfully, the point of this tweet? Covid is a serious pandemic, and our responses to it are producing devastating economic, social, and educational consequences. So,even apart from the question whether these responses are proportionaate even now,
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