12 May 2020

Hong Kong Flu

In 1968-69 our nation lost 164,000 population adjusted lives to Hong Kong Flu.
We didn't panic.
We didn't destroy our economy.
Obviously, we weren't as smart then as we are now.

6 comments:

Greybeard said...

https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/

Ed Bonderenka said...

You sure about that?

Greybeard said...

Copy/paste/read the link above, Ed.

Greybeard said...

Here's another:
https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2020-01-31-5-worst-flu-outbreaks-in-recent-history

Old NFO said...

Huh, I found a paper that said only 100,000 died in 68. Of course, I can't find it again... sigh

Greybeard said...

That's what my link says too, Navy.
"Population-adjusted" is similar to "inflation-adjusted" if we're talking the price of something now compared to "back when".
Sorry that wasn't clear.