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Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« on: 20 March 2020, 13:05:16 »

1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed between 50-100 million.

Perspective. :)

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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #1 on: 20 March 2020, 13:41:12 »

Spain has shut it's borders now due to covid 19
so i doubt that Spanish flu will spread much more than it already has in the last 102 years  ;D :D
but thanks for the heads up  :y


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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #2 on: 20 March 2020, 13:49:27 »

Spain has shut it's borders now due to covid 19
so i doubt that Spanish flu will spread much more than it already has in the last 102 years  ;D :D
but thanks for the heads up  :y


I think much of the 'hysteria' is unwarranted. :)
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2020, 14:05:38 »

Not so much hysteria, more people being totally stupid like the idiots in London on the news yesterday evening + 1918 was over 100 years ago so medical knowhow has improved vastly so the death toll would be expected to be less.
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2020, 14:24:05 »

Not so much hysteria, more people being totally stupid like the idiots in London on the news yesterday evening + 1918 was over 100 years ago so medical knowhow has improved vastly so the death toll would be expected to be less.

1918 was the end of the great war. People were more hardy then, so probably took the extra problem of Spanish flu in their stride.

Life was generally tougher 100 years ago. People were also far less less risk averse than they are now. A snowflake was something that dropped from the sky on a cold day. :)
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2020, 16:26:13 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #6 on: 20 March 2020, 16:57:36 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
Except for the lack of stuff in the supermarket.
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #7 on: 20 March 2020, 17:24:58 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
Yep, you'd just cough yourself to death blissfully un-aware  ;D
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #8 on: 20 March 2020, 18:25:11 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
Except for the lack of stuff in the supermarket.

The UK is getting more obese every year. I'd just assume a lot of fat bastards had gone shopping at the same time.
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #9 on: 20 March 2020, 18:28:35 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
Yep, you'd just cough yourself to death blissfully un-aware  ;D

In the good old days a healthy dose of consumption would see people into the next world. :y
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #10 on: 20 March 2020, 23:56:37 »

If you weren't on OOF, Twitter, or Facebook and didn't watch telly or get a newspaper, you might not realise anything strange is going on to be honest.  ::)
Except for the lack of stuff in the supermarket.

.. and a commute blissfully free of dawdling, excessively risk-averse VW drivers. :y
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #11 on: 21 March 2020, 00:13:40 »

Apparently China Mobile has lost about 8 million customers since January.  :-X

Of course they could have switched to Vodafone or 3 for a better deal, otherwise maybe it's because they just didn't need a phone anymore.   ::)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijings-claim-no-new-infections-contradicts-reality-ground

Incidentally 8 million is about 0.55% of China's population of 1.435 billion.   :(
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #12 on: 21 March 2020, 04:50:04 »

Apparently China Mobile has lost about 8 million customers since January.  :-X

Of course they could have switched to Vodafone or 3 for a better deal, otherwise maybe it's because they just didn't need a phone anymore.   ::)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijings-claim-no-new-infections-contradicts-reality-ground

Incidentally 8 million is about 0.55% of China's population of 1.435 billion.   :(
I'm surprised Rods never got to that before you. Zero hedge looks like a very reliable news outlet.
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #13 on: 21 March 2020, 09:18:55 »

Apparently China Mobile has lost about 8 million customers since January.  :-X

Of course they could have switched to Vodafone or 3 for a better deal, otherwise maybe it's because they just didn't need a phone anymore.   ::)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijings-claim-no-new-infections-contradicts-reality-ground

Incidentally 8 million is about 0.55% of China's population of 1.435 billion.   :(
I'm surprised Rods never got to that before you. Zero hedge looks like a very reliable news outlet.

 ;D  I didn't say that I believed it to be true, just reported what I'd seen.  ;)

I don't think that it's beyond the realms of possibility that the Chinese government have been lying and covering things up all along though.  ::)
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Re: Worldwide Coronavirus death toll reaches 10,000.
« Reply #14 on: 21 March 2020, 13:52:50 »

1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed between 50-100 million.

Perspective. :)

And the Worldwide death toll of the 2009/10 H1N1 pandemic was in excess of 200,000 possibly as high as 500,000.

 
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