Would there have been lockdowns if Covid had happened in the 1990's?
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THIS ALREADY HAPPENED. It was the 68-69 season, and there was a new, exotic respiratory illness from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Flu, they called it. It killed the modern equivalent of 160,000 people, in this country, alone. This was without governors murdering the elderly, or hospitals fudging numbers for money. There wasn’t a massive, coordinated attempt to use it, to overthrow the West.
What happened, that season? Massive outdoor gatherings like celebrations for Apollo 8, Woodstock, and country-wide parades for Apollo 11. Nobody cared, and nobody remembers, now. Covid could have been that, and we let them off the hook.
It baffles me that so few people know about this. Even people who grew up when this would have been big news don't even know. That's all this is.
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