Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
We have had a serious epidemic before, but not while political / societal meltdown occurred simultaneously.

Whatever, 2020 has been a very, very unusual year by any measuring metric.
Yes, a highly unlikely year. I was more amazed at how the lesser noticed numbers, in the background, lined up. A head-scratcher.

If I recall, Philadelphia didn't cancel a big war bonds parade, at the beginning of the second round of the 1918 flu, and the much-worse virus spun out of control there, but, this pales in comparison to what Trump did. New Zealand had the initial spike in cases, but, from there on, if I recall, it was like a handful if any new cases a day.