The Scandemic

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[–]One_Jack_Move 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I agree firmly with the intention of this image, but it was made several months ago. Current "official" worldwide death count is at around 1.8 million and that estimate will stay about that for 2020.
That number will increase in 2021 by some estimates, up to a total of ~3 million.

This would be 0.023% (0.038%) of the now 7.8B world population (depending if you go yearly or estimated total). So... worse than the 2018 flu season, but absolutely nothing like the 1918 Spanish flu.

Of course, this is all dependent on the reliability of the data recently collected, and the data collected in 1918.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

So that shows it's about 3x as bad as a bad flu in terms of mortality. That matches up with calculations I've done before on other data

[–]One_Jack_Move 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Seems so, approximately.

I wanted to expand on how much worse the Spanish Flu was, but estimates vary so much from study to study that it's silly to say much more than it was significantly worse. As /u/TheJamesRocket mentioned below, the the 1918 world population may have been higher than OP's image suggests. If experts can't even agree on what the population was in 1918, anyone's guess at the specific mortality of the Spanish Flu is pretty questionable.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not to mention the large number of deaths that were from Aspirin, which was the miracle treatment at the time, and was overprescribed and killed so many people through liver and kidney malfunction