Turns out modern technology/medicine, cleanliness standards, and avoidance of the illness of the highest at risk had a big effect in making sure it didn't take us out. One 100 years before we had a very similar pandemic that didn't end the world, but caused a large number of deaths.

It's so easy to tell a story. Any story. Here in internetland.

It's getting so I don't trust a single thing any of you people say.

It's like tower of babel part 2.

And it wasn't always easy to tell a story IRL?

The term snakeoil salesman and yellow journalism is from far pre-internet days. If you thought the internet was going to be some magical where everyone told the truth you were already completely disconnected from reality.

All the internet does is guide us to our little reality tunnels of the untruth that we enjoy best.

With the magic of social media everybody can be a snakeoil salesman now. And will. Apparently everybody is just a snakeoil salesman waiting for the opportunity to push their dreams and politics.

So now we have a million-strong chorus of snakeoil salesmen 24-7.

I'd call that a big difference.

The pandemic 100 years ago killed children, the pandemic today didn't, that makes them night and day. The pandemic we had now wouldn't be very noticeable 100 years ago since it mostly killed old people and there weren't that many old people around.

Imagine if Covid was as lethal to everyone as it was to 70 year olds, then you had the plague 100 years ago.

A man wearing body armor survives a gun shot.

Man exclaims: "see! guns aren't dangerous!"

People said the wildest shit about covid.