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Also 1968 Flu pandemic killed 1 million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

Different perspective. AIDS was (and still is) definitely much much scarier infection than COVID-19, but yet it did not fundamentally change how our society operates.

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It was easy to avoid AIDS (unless you needed a blood transfusion) and, as a result, not many people in the west ever got AIDS as a result. AIDS is nothing like this pandemic, in other words.

You’re right — it’s also worth reflecting on the fact that tuberculosis killed 1.5 million people in 2018 [1].

[1]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosi...

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