re: Dr. Anthony Fauci now says COVID-19 mortality rate closer to "very bad flu"

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So After closing down everything, we are battling a bad case of the flu?

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A bad case of the flu is the all time world champion pandemic.

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In terms of numbers, probably. In terms of percentages, the Black death in the 1300s killed 1/3 of Europe in 10 years, over 20 million people. The world population dropped from an estimated 443 million in 1340 to an estimated 360 million in 1400.

Estimates for the Spanish Flu range from 17 and 100 million with most estimates in the 20 million range. World population at the time was between 1.8 and 2 billion