• GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    100% agreed, but also the ages affected were, in both cases, biased towards greater fatalities. Boomers are still around, and were both old enough to be disproportionately affected, and disproportionately more of the population than an average demographics curve. In 1919, younger people would have been a larger part of the population as lfe expectancy would have been lower.