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http://chromatius.blogspot.com [No Contact Politics] , Marr's ears (compulsory joke) and Liam Donaldson, the UK government's Chief Medical Officer, telling us that the 1918 flu epidemic occurred "before the age of modern hospitals", so it wasn't comparable and therefore we could expect a mere "50,000 excess deaths".

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