The next pandemic is already here and it’s called Liberalism.
With all the anti-vaccination people out there a pandemic of something becomes more and more likely. Smallpox would be horrible.
There was nothing particular ‘Spanish’ about the flu:
we DON'T need to be around people or eat at restaurants or go to movies...we'd be perfectly happy isolated away from our lovely lovely society....
Open border people hope so....
The best flu vaccine is the flu.
Keep your immune system strong with regular exercise, fresh air and good nutrition.
When a particularly virulent strain comes along, you’ll likely have had something close to it over your lifetime and be as ready as anybody.
Vaccines notwithstanding.
Gosh, I wonder what part of the European population is less likely to get the vaccine??
My Grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Walker, was born July 4, 1979. His first wife died as a result of the Spanish Flue in 1918. As a young widower with three boys to raise, he married my Grandmother in 1920.
He was 41. She was 18. Just a few years older than the boys.
Read where we lost more troops to that flu than in combat.
Re: “Pregnant women are the #1 priority for flu vaccination, according to the WHO.”
Because, if they die, they no longer qualify for abortions?
Catastrophic Pandemic PinGGG!..............
This fear mongering pops up every few years. 1918 is never going to happen unless we go back to millions crammed together on troop ships, houses with no indoor plumbing, and most being ignorant of basic sanitation. That’s why things like Ebola strike backwards regions but quickly die out in the 1st World.
We have a pandemic of hospital infections today. More Americans die from those than car accidents. But, it’s not cool to talk about that, I guess. Better to dwell on scary, exotic viruses.
Ebola?
It’s all scare tactics by the vaccine manufacturers to get you get a practically worthless inoculation.
I have had my very last flu shot.
Last year’s just put my knees out for a couple of days starting 6 hours after the shot.
This year’s triggered a bursitis attack in the receiving arm, has caused everything to taste like crap, my gums are very sore and intermittently bleeding, and I’ve gained 20+ pounds!
I am lethargic, feeling totally out-of-sorts, and have difficulty concentrating.
My doc had a full blood workup done, and the only thing he saw was slightly elevated liver and pancreatic enzymes. He told me to stop drinking, which made me laugh, since I drink about 4 glasses of beer a week as opposed to the growler per day I drank up until about 2 years ago.
I got the shot on the 22nd of October and still can’t do much of anything. I get home from work and my days off are spent trying to recover. Never again.
The U.S. government helped the disease spread by their iron fisted control of the media under President Wilson. Truly one of the most disgusting and power-hungry want-to-be dictators.
A worthwhile documentary which surprisingly exposes much of Wilson's outrageous dictatorial behavior is the PBS series "The Great War", which is available to watch online.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
my understanding is..
doctors often wear a special mask
that keeps them safe during epidemics.
perhaps more people should do so
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beak_doctor_costume
But, in 1976, we were warned that the Spanish Flu would re-emerge as the SWINE FLU!
To my knowledge, only ONE person caught the Swine flu, from some swine.