During the 1918 Swine Flu epidemic, it was found that undernourished people died or died faster than the people who could afford meat. So your comment about nutrition, I think, will prove true in the US. If the Chinese are eating dog and reptiles, it would seem to me that healthy beef is not readily available lowering their protein build up in their bodies. These viruses like to devour protein.
“During the 1918 Swine Flu epidemic, it was found that undernourished people died or died faster than the people who could afford meat. So your comment about nutrition, I think, will prove true in the US. If the Chinese are eating dog and reptiles, it would seem to me that healthy beef is not readily available lowering their protein build up in their bodies. These viruses like to devour protein.”
My argument with the original comment was that the doctors and other notables were less likely to be undernourished or receive inadequate health care. Or be lax in their precautions (at least once they knew what they were facing). But some 1700 health care workers have been infected and many have died including some of said notables.
I totally buy the smoking and pollution arguments as there are actual studies supporting the ACE2 connection (as opposed to the racial factor which may exist but has not been substantiated sufficiently).
I think the eating of dogs, bats, snakes, pangolin, what ever, are more a cultural affliction than due to starvation, but I will respect the opinion of someone more informed on that one.
And I realize you meant Spanish Flu.
Incidentally, if viruses “devour protein” does a high protein diet (combo Keto & Atkins, sort of) make you more durable or more appetizing? I wonder.