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Old 14th Mar 2020, 16:12
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Originally Posted by marchino61
OK. And so what? Ten of thousands of people have contracted Covid-19.
During the "festivities" in the Middle East / Gulf region in the early 2000s my father and I mused over what his father's generation would have made of the reporting of each individual casualty, considering that in granddad's war, for example, 13,000 allied soldiers (and 12,000 Germans) died in one day at the First Battle of Passchendaele.

We're seeing a kind of reverse effect, where the media obsessively told us all about the first locals to get Covid, age, gender, where they caught it, etc, but are now rapidly transitioning to just reporting numbers. In the context of having lived through the Spanish Flu, I wonder what grandad would make of the modern detailed reporting of coronavirus right from the first dozen or so cases.
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