{"id":1730,"date":"2021-03-07T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T09:51:08","slug":"covid-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/covid-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing personal. Just figures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1812\" src=\"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07.png 1160w, https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07-768x670.png 768w, https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07-1024x893.png 1024w, https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/covid-deathtoll-2021-03-07-700x611.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Computed as follows \u2193<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<h6>Spanish Flu<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h6>Hong Kong Flu<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h6>Covid-19<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Period<\/td>\n<td>1918-20<\/td>\n<td>1968-69<\/td>\n<td>cumulated as of 7 March 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Deaths worldwide, mln<\/td>\n<td>Medium estimation: <strong>75<\/strong> mln; Pessimistic est.: <strong>100<\/strong> mln<br \/>\n<small>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pandemia_de_gripe_de_1918\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<td>Medium est.: <strong>2<\/strong>.5 mln; Pessimistic est.: <strong>4<\/strong> mln<br \/>\n<small>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2820%2931201-0\/fulltext\">The<br \/>\nLancet<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<td><strong>2<\/strong>.591 mln<br \/>\n<small>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\">Johns<br \/>\nHopkins University<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>World Population, mln<\/td>\n<td>1912<\/td>\n<td>3552<\/td>\n<td>7851<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"font-weight: bold; background: auto;\">\n<td>Population Lost in the Pandemic, %<\/td>\n<td>3.92%<\/td>\n<td>0.07%<\/td>\n<td>0.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Covid-19 data as of 7 March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; Have you ever heard of the Hong Kong Flu? Honestly. It was only 52 years ago. Twice as many victims as our Covid. Honestly, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/covid-context\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Covid: context\"><p>Nothing personal. Just figures. Computed as follows \u2193 Spanish Flu Hong Kong Flu Covid-19 Period 1918-20 1968-69 cumulated as of 7 March 2021 Deaths worldwide, mln Medium estimation: 75 mln; Pessimistic est.: 100 mln Source: Wikipedia Medium est.: 2.5 mln; Pessimistic est.: 4 mln Source: The Lancet 2.591 mln Source:\u00a0 Johns Hopkins University World Population, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,14],"tags":[9],"class_list":{"0":"post-1730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-covid","7":"category-general","8":"category-politica","9":"tag-english","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}