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Posted by CyrenYoung, Wed Nov-08-23 05:04 PM
>A lot more people died over a longer period of time (of
>course).

You could've stopped there.

>We didn't have a lockdown

You're right, because AIDs was an epidemic and wasn't airborne. That means Covid is much worse (hence, the lockdown).

>but we lived in fear of AIDS for a
>lot longer then most people lived in a fear of COVID.

Fear? There are people currently dealing with the impact of COVID, that will likely live with those issues for the rest of their lives. I know this because my father is one of them.

>I really am not trying to argue one is worse than the other,
>but I would say despite what you are saying, the AIDS epidemic
>is very comparable to the COVID pandemic.

AIDs has a 40yr head start, yet Covid did more than 15% of that damage in less than 3 yrs. Your math isn't mathin', mayne.




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