Interesting analysis of Birx body language when confronted with the USC study, possibly showing that the mortality rate of CHINAVIRUS may not be that different from a really bad strain of flu.
I don’t know why it is never mentioned ... but most of the 1917-1918 Spanish flu deaths were actually from pneumonia.
This was before the discovery of penicillin, a true wonder drug.
So even the Spanish Flu wouldn’t be anywhere near as deadly if it occurred today.
most of the 1917-1918 Spanish flu deaths were actually from pneumonia.
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Seeing those dates reminds me—someone on a thread had questioned why POTUS kept saying 1917 instead of 1918. Given the double meanings of many things these days I was thinking about it.
And I came up with the Bolshevik Revolution—1917. Our DS Derps are a lot of Bolshevik types.
“I don’t know why it is never mentioned ... but most of the 1917-1918 Spanish flu deaths were actually from pneumonia.”
I recall a FReeper posted, regarding the Spanish flu, that Bayer aspirin advertised that ‘a handful a day’ (if not a handful and HUGE dose) will stop stop the flu - but instead it led to bleeding lungs and death by pneumonia...