History read. Over two years to kill 50 million people. That is a big deal. That DOES NOT detract from this epidemic becoming a big deal. Even if the deaths are less.
I don’t see why you don’t get that. Half the population and industry has redirected their efforts, which will significantly reduce the death count. We have to go into a financial depression in order to beat the Spanish Flu. Read that again. Those people didn’t know how to avoid spreading and here we are armed with better knowledge, and are ramping up (10k increase in death toll from last week which is a third again the total death toll) -EXPONENTIAL GROWTH. That means it is really going spread in the coming months. Third world countries are in deep trouble. Maybe it means little to the typical American, but this is going to get a lot worse before we can honestly compare numbers.
If 70%+ of this virus’s death toll is in first world health care systems, what do think is going to happen to rest? China and Iran hide their death tolls, but you can’t fool all the people. Videos about urn counts in China, 21 million cell phone accounts inoperable, Iranian grave pit sizes with satellite imagery,, this is a bigger problem than the numbers provide. Probably not for us, I wouldn’t wish suffering on most people.