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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I don't think we will know for a long time. Guess we will see if the heart damage lowers our life expectancy meaningfully.
Comparatively speaking, I think it was less severe than previous pandemics like the Spanish Flu.
It definitely broke a few brains along the way, a ton of people I still see prosecuting the response are the ones who denied it, and then refused to participate in mitigating it. They seem desperate to prove to themselves that they were right, despite most of their predictions being nonsense.
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This is something that I think is interesting, was it 'less severe' or did the fact that modern medicine of our time is so much more effective that it kept a lot of the ancillary damage low?
We definitely had more problems because of the mobility and porosity of our borders, the Spanish Flu really kicked ass because of the mobilization of troops allowed huge infected populations to move from place to place which wouldnt be the norm in 1918.
And then...communication....hoo boy...thats the big one.
Now you can have a National Leader make a health policy and put that on TV delivering that policy to the Nation in no time, couldnt do that back in the day either.
But the flip side is that every crackpot and lunatic also got a soapbox upon which to peddle their nonsense.