▲ 356 ▼ It's the '20s, fascism is on the rise and the stock market is completely divorced from the economic reality of regular people (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (1 child) Also, we just had a major pandemic. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children) To be fair, the 1919 flu was orders of magnitude worse than covid. Literally one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Covid is far lower in terms of percentage of mortality globally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago (1 child) I'd be curious how much of a difference the vaccine made. Like if we hadn't had a vaccine would the death rates have been more similar? One major difference I think I've read is that the Spanish flu was more likely to kill younger people whereas COVID hit our elderly population much harder. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago 100% agreed, but also the ages affected were, in both cases, biased towards greater fatalities. Boomers are still around, and were both old enough to be disproportionately affected, and disproportionately more of the population than an average demographics curve. In 1919, younger people would have been a larger part of the population as lfe expectancy would have been lower. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (1 child) Probably so, but another thing is much more severe today than it ever was back then: the ease and speed of distributing fascist and/or destabilizing propaganda. X, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok are full of it, and guess where most people hang out on and get their "news" from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago You had WWI and troops with horses, which were carriers. Sort of an apples and oranges factor, but it's not like the 1919 flu was happening in a vacuum. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hedup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago Covid wasnt rivaled by a global war or smth. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children) To be fair, the 1919 flu was orders of magnitude worse than covid. Literally one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Covid is far lower in terms of percentage of mortality globally. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago (1 child) I'd be curious how much of a difference the vaccine made. Like if we hadn't had a vaccine would the death rates have been more similar? One major difference I think I've read is that the Spanish flu was more likely to kill younger people whereas COVID hit our elderly population much harder. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago 100% agreed, but also the ages affected were, in both cases, biased towards greater fatalities. Boomers are still around, and were both old enough to be disproportionately affected, and disproportionately more of the population than an average demographics curve. In 1919, younger people would have been a larger part of the population as lfe expectancy would have been lower. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (1 child) Probably so, but another thing is much more severe today than it ever was back then: the ease and speed of distributing fascist and/or destabilizing propaganda. X, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok are full of it, and guess where most people hang out on and get their "news" from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago You had WWI and troops with horses, which were carriers. Sort of an apples and oranges factor, but it's not like the 1919 flu was happening in a vacuum. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hedup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago Covid wasnt rivaled by a global war or smth. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago (1 child) I'd be curious how much of a difference the vaccine made. Like if we hadn't had a vaccine would the death rates have been more similar? One major difference I think I've read is that the Spanish flu was more likely to kill younger people whereas COVID hit our elderly population much harder. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago 100% agreed, but also the ages affected were, in both cases, biased towards greater fatalities. Boomers are still around, and were both old enough to be disproportionately affected, and disproportionately more of the population than an average demographics curve. In 1919, younger people would have been a larger part of the population as lfe expectancy would have been lower. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago 100% agreed, but also the ages affected were, in both cases, biased towards greater fatalities. Boomers are still around, and were both old enough to be disproportionately affected, and disproportionately more of the population than an average demographics curve. In 1919, younger people would have been a larger part of the population as lfe expectancy would have been lower. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (1 child) Probably so, but another thing is much more severe today than it ever was back then: the ease and speed of distributing fascist and/or destabilizing propaganda. X, Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok are full of it, and guess where most people hang out on and get their "news" from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago You had WWI and troops with horses, which were carriers. Sort of an apples and oranges factor, but it's not like the 1919 flu was happening in a vacuum. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago You had WWI and troops with horses, which were carriers. Sort of an apples and oranges factor, but it's not like the 1919 flu was happening in a vacuum. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hedup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago Covid wasnt rivaled by a global war or smth. permalink fedilink source parent
