eli5 What are the ways people in the 20th century survived the Spanish flu compared to what we experienced in 2020?
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Everyone who was susceptible to dying from it just went ahead and died. It was much more deadly than Covid.
People wore masks and enforced mask wearing with laws and fines.
Australia quarantined itself really well for a good amount of time until it finally snuck in and infect almost half the population.
People weren’t as tightly packed into the same population density and weren’t flying around the world. If people were infected on a ship, you knew about it before reaching your destination.
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