China's coronavirus has 'the same death rate as the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50m people'

Yahoo Style UK ^ | January 22, 2020 | Alexandra Thompson

[hanamizu]

Here’s a YouTube that gives a pretty good idea of how bad the Spanish flu was. Even explains how and why it got its name...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls&t=148s&frags=pl%2Cwn

[Pelham]

“Good point. But the SF developed very fast in younger people.”

That’s due to ‘cytokine storm’.

A hybrid flu like 1918 causes an extreme response by your immune system. It will flood your lungs with antibodies and you can literally drown in them. Young adults with strong immune systems were at greatest risk.

There were 1918 stories of children leaving for school with two healthy parents and returning to find themselves orphaned. It could kill that quickly.

My paternal grandfather caught that flu at an Army camp stateside and it nearly killed him. There were so many severly ill soldiers that the Army didn’t have enough medical staff to treat them. They put out a call for civilian volunteers to come help.

[mad_as_he$$]

Thanks!