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What would it take to get anti maskers to mask up?
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Just looking at the Wikipedia pages for each pandemic, the Spanish Flu is "generally accepted" to have killed 25 to 50 million people. The Wikipedia page for COVID-19 cites a 2022 The Economist article that estimates 18.2 to 33.5 million death toll for the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
The COVID-19 pandemic is the 5th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in human history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics#By_death_toll
Of course, the world population was probably less than a quarter of what it is now, so a higher percentage defintely died. Probably because of the relatively crappy health care at the time