Some asked a question earlier in this thread about how the Wuhan Red Death compares to past pandemics. Earlier I had looked at numbers from past epidemics, and I was struck by the pattern that these tend to occur about every ten years, especially in recent history.
Asian Flu, 1957-58. 116,000 US deaths, US population was ~172 million Hong Kong Flu, 1968, 100,000 US deaths, population was ~201 million Avian Flu, 1997, isolated to Hong Kong with 18 deaths SARS, 2003, world wide only ~8000 were infected and ~780 died. H1N1 swine flu, 2009-10, 12,469 US deaths, population was ~309 million MERS, Outbreak in 2012, total to date of 2494 cases, 858 deaths, mostly in Saudi Arabia and Korea. WRD outbreak, 2020, 119,000 US deaths so far, population is ~331 million So far, the Asian Flu of '57-'58 and the Hong Kong Flu of '68 killed a higher percentage of our population than the current WRD virus. We did not lock down our economy and suffer a recession back then, something to remember the next time one of these comes around. ------------- Max Charleston SC _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
