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Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread

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I dunno but by far the greatest number of deaths being infant mortality is quite sobering.

Our picture of the expectancy of staying alive is miles divorced from almost all of human experience. For instance in the Roman Empire at the height of its sophistication about 30% of babies would die before the age of 1, and fewer than 50% would make it past the age of 5.

I do find this slightly comforting in the present predicament (not logical I know - but I’m human and hence not logical), that this is just what life is like, and we’ve been lulled by an abnormally quiescent century or so.
 
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