| Now the coronadoom has killed just under, the most generous estimates say, 1.6 million. So far. The winter is just beginning in the more populous northern hemisphere, so this number will increase. Let’s give the bug the benefit of the doubt and say two million by summer, which will mark, it is likely, the official end of the panic. There are 7.8 billion of us now, so that doom will score about 0.0026%. This is way behind Spanish flu, which did 76 times better, but then nobody except model-wielding academics like Neil Ferguson thought the doom would compete toe-to-toe with Spanish flu. Everybody remembers the Asian flu of 1957-1958, which WHO says gave work to undertakers to the tune of 1-4 million sales. In 1958 there were 2.9 billion souls. That gives a score of 0.03 to 0.1%. That’s 3.3 times better than the doom; or a 330% increase. The feature everybody recalls best about the Asian flu was the worldwide panic. The entire US then, as now, was locked down. Many were thrown out of work, businesses permanently shuttered. Masks mandates everywhere. People wearing gloves, facemasks, screaming at those who didn’t. And, of course, the biggie: The global declaration that everybody must have the flu vaccine else they could not buy or sell — or work or go outside or mingle with others. Nobody was forced to take the vaccine. It was a free choice. Freedom was just as important then as now. The only industry that will survive? The story repeated a decade later, which the WHO estimates also killed 1-4 million souls. That’s only 2.8 times better than the doom — but that’s inflation for you. Devalues everything. Here’s how the Asian flu started, according to Wiki. See if you’ve heard this before: “The first cases were reported in Guizhou in early 1956 or early 1957, and they were reported in the neighbouring province of Yunnan before the end of February. On 17 April, The Times reported that “an influenza epidemic has affected thousands of Hong Kong residents”. By the end of the month, Singapore also experienced an outbreak of the new flu, which peaked in mid-May with 680 deaths. In Taiwan, 100,000 were affected by mid-May, and India suffered a million cases by June. In late June, the pandemic reached the United Kingdom. By June 1957, it reached the United States, where it initially caused few infections….” It goes on in the now-familiar vein. The story about the panic in ’57-’58 was what we in the blog trade call a joke. It wasn’t true. There was no panic. There were no lockdowns. There were no mask mandates. There were no threats to starve to death people who wouldn’t get vaccinated. And, to repeat, there were no lockdowns. Same thing a decade later. No lockdowns. Lots of lockdowns now. Endless panic. No perspective. That makes 223,000 Asian flu dead in 2020 numbers. CDC says 262,000 coronadoom deaths now. But those are deaths “involving” the doom, which includes those dying with and those dying from. In any case, comparable numbers — again, with no panic. -William Briggs
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George Gilder
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