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How Does a Pandemic End? Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu
Time ^ | 10/6/2020 | Olivia R. Waxman

Posted on 02/07/2025 11:30:05 AM PST by DallasBiff

More than six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, as scientific understanding of the novel coronavirus continues to evolve, one question remains decidedly unanswered. How will this pandemic come to an end?

Current scientific understanding is that only a vaccine will put an end to this pandemic, but how we get there remains to be seen. It seems safe to say, however, that some day, somehow, it will end. After all, other viral pandemics have. Take, for example, the flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: covid; covidhoax; ginakolata; influenza; pandemic; plague; spanishlady
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does the sign really say, “COVID-1984”? That’s great!


21 posted on 02/07/2025 12:55:44 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Then there was Sweating Sickness that came and went several times starting in the late 1400’s and ending around 1555.

Then it died out and they are still no positive what it was today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness


22 posted on 02/07/2025 1:11:53 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
Does the sign really say, “COVID-1984”? That’s great!


23 posted on 02/07/2025 1:13:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

O.K. It’s so “mile-high” that no one gets it. Too bad. :(


24 posted on 02/07/2025 1:16:33 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Coronavirus was not a pandemic. It was a huge hoax. Deaths from all causes were conflated to show larger fatalities, and older people were killed in convalescent care. China staged fake deaths to make us afraid which worked pretty well. The entire health care system of hospitals and doctor offices was shut down to keep them from being overwhelmed and people died of other causes because they couldn’t get health care.

The comparison with the actual pandemic was an advertising stunt.


25 posted on 02/07/2025 1:16:45 PM PST by webheart (Kohms is what I call commies. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

The ability to detect humor is a function of IQ.


26 posted on 02/07/2025 1:19:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think humor is a function of I.Q., too. ;-)


27 posted on 02/07/2025 1:26:48 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m amused (and disgusted) by the sheets of plexiglass still floating in the air above many checkout counters. It represents a level of ignorance and stupidity that is hard to comprehend (though the same can be said of most everything having to do with “COVID”).


28 posted on 02/07/2025 1:58:54 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ducttape45

Many of us believe the “pandemic” never existed in the first place


29 posted on 02/08/2025 5:28:15 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Jonty30

>>>Something that Fauci should have known
He did know that. It is provable because he authored a paper about it


30 posted on 02/08/2025 5:31:01 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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