Two Major Epidemics of Last Century
The coronavirus pandemic from 2019-2023 was something we all had to live with, and led to the death of of around 16,900 Sri Lankans. But, because of modern medicine and concerted efforts, was mortality 2.5%.. losing only 0.07% of our population. We all remember what it went through, but Sri Lankans for centuries have went through epidemics without modern medicine as it is, and with 2 examples from last century. In the 1918-1920 Spannish Flu pandemic, the analog of our situation from a century ago. 91 600 people are said to have died, which is more than 4 times the death toll of the last pandemic, when our country had 4 times lower the population. So essentially 16 times more death. Actually, this number has many nuances to it, which I can't express in post, links provided https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mortality-of-the-1918-1920-Influenza-Pandemic-Asia_tbl3_11487892 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4181474/#:~:text=11%E2%80%9313,51%20000%E2%80%9391%20600%20deaths. What...