More like 20,000. Remember who's telling us the news.
Posted on 05/02/2020 6:39:16 AM PDT by budj
I don’t know that anybody graphed it back in 1968. But it’s pretty well written up in Wikipedia, so you can mentally chart your own graph. As you will read below, it got to the USA in September 1968, and returned in waves until 1972. 100,000 Americans were killed by HKF in total.
(Compared to 60,000 Americans killed by Wuhan Flu so far, most of them in the past 6 weeks.)
Hong Kong flu
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hong Kong flu (also known as 1968 flu pandemic[1]) was a flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people all over the world.[2][3][4] It was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus.
The first record of the outbreak in Hong Kong appeared on 13 July 1968. By the end of July 1968, extensive outbreaks were reported in Vietnam and Singapore. Despite the lethality of the 1957 Asian Flu in China, little improvement had been made regarding the handling of such epidemics. The Times newspaper was the first source to sound alarm regarding this new possible pandemic. There is a possibility that this outbreak actually began in mainland China before spreading to Hong Kong, but this is unconfirmed.[5]
By September 1968, the flu reached India, the Philippines, northern Australia, and Europe. That same month, the virus entered California from returning Vietnam War troops but did not become widespread in the United States until December 1968. It would reach Japan, Africa, and South America by 1969.[6] The outbreak in Hong Kong, where population density is greater than 6,000 people per square kilometre, reached maximum intensity in two weeks, lasting six months in total from July to December 1968. However, worldwide deaths from this virus peaked much later, in December 1968 and January 1969. By that time, public health warnings[7] and virus descriptions[8] were issued in the scientific and medical journals.
In comparison to other pandemics, the Hong Kong flu yielded a low death rate. [6]
This pandemic struck in two waves with the second wave being deadlier than the first in most places.[9]
The same virus returned the following years: a year later, in late 1969 and early 1970, and in 1972. The total worldwide death toll is estimated to have been in the region of one million people.
Elective procedures... Travis must have helped design Android autocorrect.
On the other hand, smoking was common and widespread. There's studies that show that nicotine fights coronavirus.
America was better when they allowed smoking commercials, and banned lawyer commercials.
Fireman, thank you for your consistently intelligent, articulate, and insightful replies.
Your contributions to the level of discussion on this topic make you a true credit to Free Republic.
See 22.
More like 20,000. Remember who's telling us the news.
Thanks for showing off your impressive cutting and pasting abilities from the world’s greatest supplier of global warming propoganda. They are so reliable on this subject too... I am sure.
#13 answers that point.
I am sorry Trav, you polluting our discussions with leftist BS has put me on edge. Unfortunately, despite having your idiocy revealed day after day... you keep using the same exact disproved material.
On top of that, they had to deal with the brown acid.
The death count is suspicious because hospitals get more money from the feds when it's a chicom-virus death, and there have been lots of allegations that the counts are manipulated.
Actually, in '68 I was on an extended tropical vacation and taking quinine. I knew of Woodstock; but, like many others here, was not aware of the HK flu.
In any case, the death rate would be more comparable, but you can do your own math. The point is: between a totalitarian lockdown and doing nothing at all, there should be a better solution. Now WHO is telling us Sweden is the better model.
“I am sorry Trav, you polluting our discussions with leftist BS has put me on edge. Unfortunately, despite having your idiocy revealed day after day... you keep using the same exact disproved material.”
Show me where it’s disproved, Flu-Bro.
Copy and paste, post the links, show the data.
All you do is throw insults, but no facts.
Typical moron Flu-Bro.
America was better when they allowed smoking commercials, and banned lawyer commercials.
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And BIG PHARM...
Notice they will run a ‘bright eyed bushy tailed’ commercial with someone feeling ‘run down’, take these pills and ‘immediate cure’
THEN there is a long list of POSSIBLE side effects to ‘cover their arses’.
In a couple of years or less, lawyers start running commercials about the latest ‘miracle drug’ and how it may be secretly killing you.
Stir, mix, repeat....
Like the man said, why cure ????? when others can get rich ‘finding a cure’.
Next thing you know they will be letting ALL of our medications be produced in other countries where we are at their whim when a ‘crisis’ hits.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Their parents, who were born at the end of the great depression to parents who fought in WWI would have strung up a group of politician who engineered 30% unemployment on purpose and told them to wear masks and where to walk, like they were domesticated animals. This whole thing is a sick joke.
The numbers are being fudged too, we have been told a load of lies to promote a depression and the Dem who can fix it all!
My wife is a retired nurse and department head at multi-level care facilities, I am a retired fire officer and spent 25 years in the back of rescue units transporting people with communicable resperatory illnesses to the hospital. My last 10 years I was one of the leaders on our big city hazmat team frequently drilling with the military for chemical and biological hazards.
One of the primary things I learned from all that experience was how to recognize a twit who thinks he knows it all. Your nonsense isn’t worth the time it takes to refute it. Any graph that is based on a running total of anything is going to have an upward slope... the graphs you are sharing are completely meaningless. The fact that you do not seem to have a grasp of this demonstrates that you have no reasoning abilities.
To the far left of that particular graph, over January, there is a curve line that appears higher than the 20 K curve line.
Any idea what caused that death spike, apparently higher than the one focused on?
There’s lies, damn lies, and statistics.
So did my dad. He went off to a far away land, met new people, and killed them.
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