No one will dispute that the Covid epidemic is unprecedented in our recent history.
If only for the way she has collectively turned our lives upside down.
But what about on a strictly accounting level?
What do the 70 .00 deaths that have occurred in France or the 2 million recorded worldwide represent?
The exercise is perilous.
Let's start with a few global comparisons, to clear things up.
Spanish flu of 1918-1919: 50 million dead.
AIDS: more than 30 million deaths since 1981 (including 700,000 in 2019).
Asian flu of 1957-1958 and Hong Kong between 1968 and 1970: 1 to 4 million deaths each.
This is the list of the major epidemic episodes of the twentieth century with which the Covid can compete.
We are indeed very far from the SARS epidemics of 2003 (less than 800 deaths), H1N1 in 2009-2010 (between 150,000 and 600,000 deaths) or Ebola (less than 15,000 deaths since 2013).
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Let us now focus more specifically on France.
Let's evacuate all of
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