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To: Land Shark who wrote (1263960)9/24/2020 6:58:30 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571180
 
I attended two pop festivals in 1969 and 1970 during the height of the Hong Kong flu. Worse then this "Corona Virus pandemic"... by all means check it out, and no one batted an eyelid regarding face masks, social distancing, or took a day off work... unless the virus made you ill, or killed you.



To: Land Shark who wrote (1263960)9/25/2020 12:53:49 AM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1571180
 
1969 flu in the US
1,000,000-4,000,000 worldwide
no lockdown
nypost.com

US population was 200,000,000; 60% of today.

"Between 1968 and 1970, the Hong Kong flu killed between an estimated 1 and 4 million, according to the CDC and Encyclopaedia Britannica, with US deaths exceeding 100,000."


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