We had some good discussion threads about the 1918 Flu and the impact of the cytokine storm response. It turns out that we have no response to a badly mutated Avian flu like the 1918 flu available.
This article indicates the first hope I’ve seen that some sort of response in possible. A 1918 Spanish Influenza (Avian) event is beyond most people’s understanding in its impact. They think of a bad version of regular influenza and don’t understand that it is that to the fifth power.
If you visit most middle sized cities’ general cemetery you will see places where there are no headstones. It appears to be a green space in the middle of the cemetery.
Those are mass graves.
People today have NO concept of what that would look like. Consider that where there were 50,000 people in 1918, there are probably 150,000 today. And a City like NY where everyone uses mass transport...they would be filling up barges and dumping them at sea.