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with seemingly no end in sight.
People fail to understand or are having a hard
time admitting that this isn’t the first pandemic
the world has experienced. Everyone chooses to
believe that this is the worst disease to have ever hit
the planet, but the sad truth is that this is blatantly
untrue. In fact, let’s take a quick look at some of the
biggest health scares to hit the human population in

the last millennium that nobody seems to want to
talk about. Let’s also take one step further and look
into the common daily causes of fatalities that are just
as dangerous as a pandemic.

The 1918 Spanish Flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (also known as the

Spanish Flu) was credited as the most severe pandemic
in recent history before the coronavirus pandemic
scare. In the span of one year, this particular strain
of influenza managed to kill fifty-million people
globally, with 650,000 deaths in the United States
alone. Focusing on the US numbers alone, that puts
the total fatality rate at 1,781 deaths per day. At
the time of writing this, the coronavirus has killed
16,697 Americans. Following the same model that

states that COVID-19 could possibly claim the lives
of 100,000 Americans, that puts the daily average
at 274 per day. This is not an optimistic number by

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