There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID

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7. It could take years - they're still adjusting the deaths from the San Francisco earthquake

And the "Spanish" flu pandemic. I think they are still arguing the number of deaths from the Black Plague!

Pretty much every government wants to minimize the death rates from any disaster. It's not until those in charge are long gone before a more objective count can be constructed.

100 years later, quake's dead still being counted

Updating the accounts: global mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" influenza pandemic

The Black Plague’s death toll is fiercely debated, with many historians estimating that between 25 million and 200 million people died in the space of five years. That’s a range of 5 percent to 40 percent of the world’s population at the time.