DEADLIEST PANDEMIC IN US HISTORY!!!! 😱😱😱😱
What the blaring headline left out was that, according to the Census Bureau, the US population back in 1918 was barely 100 million people. Today it’s 330 million.
So get the fuck out of here, CNBC.
If not for the media and the mask mandates and all the bullshit Covid restrictions from the government, would you even know there was viral pandemic going on? How many people do you know that have died from Covid? How many people do you know that have been hospitalized due to Covid?
Right now, the official global death toll for Covid is 4.7 million. Now there are reasons to doubt the accuracy of that number, but let’s just go with it.
According to Wikipedia, the most commonly accepted estimates in terms of the death toll of the Spanish Flu pandemic are between 25-50 million people, with some estimates as high as 100 million.
Not only that, but the Spanish Flu originated in post-WW1 Europe and was brought back to the US by soldiers returning from the war. The US was also way less urbanized and had a far lower population density than it does today, meaning that it was inherently harder for the virus to spread here.
And given the fact that there was no such thing as trans-oceanic flight back then, and in order to get from Europe to the US you had to get on a boat for weeks, meaning it was way more difficult for the virus to spread around the world.
And still it killed 25-50 million people.
Covid does not even come close.
And in case you were wondering, they had masks back in 1918, too:
They didn’t work back then, but I’m sure they’ll work now.
Any day now.