Can TPM do some research and maybe call CDC or some research outfit that could provide information about the where and who in terms of how past pandemics effected the US population? Who was getting killed by measles? Where did they live? Are there any historical demographic trends to the way a pandemic shakes down in the population? Is it dense, inner city, close-quarters populations or rural, sparse populations that get hit worst? Questions like those.
I posit there are some blatant observable trends in the historical data (as suggested by my loaded question above)ā¦but I admit to not knowing (and to believing you have a responsibility to investigate and tell us)ā¦and I think the GOP/Teatrolls salivate over the prospect of a recurrence of such pandemics for all the reasons those trends would suggest. Whatās more, I want that data at my fingertips to flagellate them with those trends and what they suggest about the ulterior motives of their anti-vaccine idiocy when they say stupid shit like Randroid or this Duffy asshole are saying.