2020 VS 1968: How Two Different Generations Dealt With A Virus - RC Groups
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Consider the fact there were less people in the US at that time, and the methods of transmission are much greater now that it was back then, yet they still had an exceedingly high number for their time. They also had significantly less medical knowledge, or knowledge about virusses and spreading mechanisms in general. Your thread title would be more accurate if it would have been "How two different generations dealt with a different virus under different circumstances and with the knowledge of their respective time era". Back then, people went on with their lives, no travel restrictions, no internet to share information rapidly, I am not surprised if even a virus half as lethal as Covid-10 would kill anywhere between 1 and 4 million over the span of 2 years, despite the lower population density. They also had significantly less medical knowledge, or knowledge about virusses and spreading mechanisms in general.Your thread title would be more accurate if it would have been "How two different generations dealt with a different virus under different circumstances and with the knowledge of their respective time era".Back then, people went on with their lives, no travel restrictions, no internet to share information rapidly, I am not surprised if even a virus half as lethal as Covid-10 would kill anywhere between 1 and 4 million over the span of 2 years, despite the lower population density.But we will never know...