[Otter]

I was listening to the Skeptics Guild to the Universe, which I do respect their opinions, and they were touting how a couple mile stones were passed in the last week or so. Two million deaths worldwide and 200,00 in the US alone.

It got me thinking, how does it compare to the 1918 Spanish Flu? A quick google search and there were 50 million deaths from Spanish Flu worldwide. We got a way to go to meet that, but maybe it will be up there with it, right?

Then it occured to me that the population was a lot less back then, so lets do some quicky math. 50 million death from a 2 billion population makes it so that 2.5% of the world's population died from Spanish Flu. Our current world population is almost 8 Billion now. 2.5% of 8 billion is 200 million.

Any opinions beyond that are just subjective, take it as you will, but we have a ways to go before we get Spanish Flu Pandemic numbers