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I Love History

Stay safe everybody.
Throughout history, pandemics and epidemics have ravaged the world. Always humanity has survived and come out the other side.
Keep as safe as you can, don't do anything silly and humanity will come out of this one too.
All over the world, scientists are working for a cure. Eventually they will find one.
Keep the faith.
Love
Helen Susan.
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Yes-but the approach to dealing with this one is unprecedented.And will probably be judged in the future as one of the biggest over reactions of all time.
@TheSirfurryanimalWales It feels like a war against...normality.

But have we ever been "normal"?
helensusanswift · 26-30, F
@Elevatorpitches How many dead so far? 170,000 in the UK alone isn't it?
@Elevatorpitches @helensusanswiftHaving done a dissertation on pandemics when I got my History degree-a history teacher in school had the Spanish flu as a pet topic so it sparked my interest-I reckon isolating everyone,rather than just the sick,has been a huge mistake.Pandemics do kill millions but herd immunity saw the others off.
There is no herd immunity to Covid because we haven’t let it happen.
And the British governments haven’t a clue how to return what they’ve taken which includes everything I enjoy.
Look up 1918 to 1923 and compare what they did then to what they’ve done now.
alan20 · M
@TheSirfurryanimalWales I've read that more died in the 1918 - 1923 flu epidemic than in the trenches, including my grandfather. I don't think they could have sat back and waited for herd immunity during covid. I feel sure that on balance the mass vaccination has saved lives.
helensusanswift · 26-30, F
@alan20 Around 50 million deaths worldwide in the flu epidemic of 1918 - the Spanish flu that started in the USA. There were about 10 million dead in the 1914-18 war.