peacefulpete
That article was mind-provoking. I can’t imagine how catastrophic it would have been, if the mortality and infection rate of Covid in 2021 was the same as the 1918 pandemic.
Considering that today people travel all over the world regularly, if Covid was as deadly as the 1918 pandemic, and considering that today we have close to 400 million people living in the USA and over 8 billion world wide, the death count might have been close to a billion or billions world wide.
And that strain of 1918 affected young, healthy and strong as well as elderly and weak. There was no compromising. It didn’t matter if you were young, strong, and healthy, if you got the virus, you were gone.
It would have disrupted food production world wide, access to fuel in the winters, medical, water supplies, Doctors and nurses would be in short supply, and that would have caused chaos all over the world.
That’s not even considering the disease that would erupt after so many dead bodies started to pile up because no one would want to get close to infected bodies to bury them. It would have gone down in history as the worst catastrophic world event.
The world after such an event, might bring it back to a situation like the movie “The Road”