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		kinleyd on May 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming in the Apocalypse Well said. I think if the vaccines hadn't come out at all, it could well have been as bad as the Spanish Flu.

tasuki on May 31, 2022 [–]

> I think if the vaccines hadn't come out at all, it could well have been as bad as the Spanish Flu.

I'm very much for vaccines, but this is just not true at all. Covid was never going to be near as bad as the Spanish flu, even if no measures were taken at all.

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