On: London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decl...

[robotresearcher]

> historically, there have been other illnesses hundreds of years ago that killed more people.

AIDS has killed around 34 million people since 1981.

[rumanator → robotresearcher]

> AIDS has killed around 34 million people since 1981.

That's on average 100k deaths per year since 1981.

Right now we are in our first quarter of covid19 and the official death count is at 340k.

[davidgould → robotresearcher]

And the response to AIDS was malicious neglect for years in many countries. A large portion of those deaths were due to bigotry.

So I suppose somewhat like the situation in the US with COVID-19 today.

[codeisawesome → robotresearcher]

That’s .. staggering.