Let's not roast somebody over a bad analogy. I don't think he meant any harm. With mitigation, we are still on track for about 100,000 deaths. Without mitigation, the death toll in the US would be over 2,000,000 which is about on par with the Spanish Flu of 1918 - 1920. Our population back then was 103 million and 675,000 died. Worldwide best estimates are 50 - 100 million died.
TB has killed 1 billion people in the past 200 years; small pox 300 million between 1900 and 1980; AIDS pandemic has killed 30 million so far; measles has killed 200 million in the last 150 years. As far as world pandemics, calamities and catastrophes go, this is apocalypse on the "Easy" setting. I just hope when it's over we don't find that we've hung ourselves by the neck to keep our feet out of the fire.
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