"TIL: Faced with a severe pilot shortage during WWII, the USA started a program called WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) to train women to be pilots. 1100 women volunteered to fly military aircraft. They were finally granted military status in the 1970s and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009."
"relatively few" yeah sure 2.8M over 132M infected .. it's peanuts compared to 7b of people on earth but it could be much worse if we all acted like the USA ... 555k death and counting ...
0.017% of the _legal_ population.