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  1. 03-26-2020, 10:35 AM #1
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    Graphic Ranking Of History’s Plagues

    I was unable to produce an image on our page that was sized correctly, so you will have to open the citation to see one until someone does it here for us. As you will see, the latest “pandemic” barely reaches a scalable level measured against those of history.

    https://www.ancient.eu/image/12023/h...est-pandemics/

    Below is a short accessible history of some of them to compare —

    https://www.ancient.eu/collection/68...es-in-history/

    It should be kept in mind that the sheer numbers are not necessarily a good comparison, where the population was much less as time digresses, which would throw off a much greater percentage of death rate.
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    Hope this is the last one.
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    But then again---if you happen to be one of the statistics does it matter anymore---dead is dead
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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    “Always with the negative waves, Dave, always with the negative waves.”

    https://youtu.be/0AEj3LA2vSo
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    Well, we may yet move up the line this thing isn't over yet. it would be nice if it was.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    “Always with the negative waves, Dave, always with the negative waves.”

    https://youtu.be/0AEj3LA2vSo
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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    You ready to take another run at trying to turn this into a non-issue?

    Seems even trump has given up on that approach.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    This one is far from finished. I suspect it will be moving up on the chart.
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    I have been trying to figure out the mortality rate---it can't be done with any accuracy, but at this point, based on the numbers at hand it is running about 2X that of previous flues.

    An interesting comment from my Bishop this morning in Mass. He was asking people to please stay home and then he said your sacrifice in this hardship pales in comparison to what your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents did during WWII.
    I guess that is the way a Bishop says "suck it up and stop your whining".
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    The data is pretty much only fit for internet arguments. But at least WE are starting to get some. I wonder about the accuracy of the numbers from 1250 also.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    The data is pretty much only fit for internet arguments. But at least WE are starting to get some. I wonder about the accuracy of the numbers from 1250 also.
    There is one thing certain---any position taken on that point is as supportable as any other position---or non-supportable as the case maybe
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    It's all so sobering.

    When I'm petty and focus inward, I merely see what Coronavirus takes from me. But, I also see what so many others are going through.

    For example, I miss going to Las Vegas. I've whined about it a few times here. Yet, I also realize I would not be able to go and simply party away the hours. That's where the sobering process hits. I would know there's just too much pain and loss out there to act like it doesn't exist. We are all part of this and connected by it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    There is one thing certain---any position taken on that point is as supportable as any other position---or non-supportable as the case maybe
    Let me clarify......the data we have is, while interesting, bullsquirt. As are most of the analyses drawn from it.

    We are carrying the mortality statistics to 4 decimal places and we don't even know how many people live in this country.
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    And more to the point, we don't know how many people have been infected
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    Btw, I like the NYT CV page. A little more reliable than Johns Hopkins. There, threw you a bone.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-us-cases.html
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