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Bacteria were the real killers in 1918 flu pandemic (2008 article)
New Scientist ^ | 8-4-2008 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 10/29/2020 5:58:12 AM PDT by dynachrome

“We agree completely that bacterial pneumonia played a major role in the mortality of the 1918 pandemic,” says

ANTHONY FAUCI,

director of National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease in Bethesda, Maryland, and author of another journal article out next month that comes to a similar conclusion.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: kungflu; spanishflu
Where have I heard the name fauci before?/s

Is it the same with the kungflu?

1 posted on 10/29/2020 5:58:12 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

How many actually died from the bird flu?

2008

“Bird Flu – Learn more about the flu pandemic that could kill millions in our continually updated special report.”


2 posted on 10/29/2020 6:01:28 AM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: dynachrome

1997, they dug up folks dead from the 1918 flu.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2020/03/22/how-an-alaska-village-grave-led-to-a-spanish-flu-breakthrough/

In 2005 they reconstructed the 1918 virus

Why, cause those scientist were dummies


3 posted on 10/29/2020 6:04:46 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: dynachrome
That's why they put the patients in outdoor tents and why nurses took morning walks WITHOUT MASKS to circulate the air in and out of the lungs.

I have to believe that the masks PROMOTE the growth of bacteria and people are actually dying of pneumonia.

4 posted on 10/29/2020 6:05:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

“masks PROMOTE the growth of bacteria”

Staph infections from wearing a mask too long are happening. People are cowering in fear and will live on their knees because of the fear porn.


5 posted on 10/29/2020 6:13:56 AM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: Steven Tyler

I bet they still have a vial of the virus in storage. Hope it doesn’t end up like King’s “The Stand”.


6 posted on 10/29/2020 6:16:30 AM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: dynachrome

Ha, been ill for more than two weeks. Finally called the dr, but he wouldn’t treat me without a Covid swab. I did have a super sore throat but I thought I had a bad sinus infection. Negative swab so last night he prescribed me an anti-bacterial. I’m ready to get on with it. There are grandchildren to visit!


7 posted on 10/29/2020 6:20:37 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: dynachrome

Masks are bacterial concentrators. Bacterial pneumonia is also one of the primary killers in the yearly flu. Masks are a control on people just like muslims use burkas to control their female population.


8 posted on 10/29/2020 6:23:05 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

Best comparison I’ve seen so far! You are absolutely right.


9 posted on 10/29/2020 6:27:08 AM PDT by JoJo2020 (I take a knee to God only!)
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To: dynachrome

Funny thing. I was talking about this very thing yesterday to a a bunch of people at the local store.

OH, and BTW, NOT ONE of us had masks on. I understand that a major medical organization has sent people here to study why the infection rate is so low in this valley.

I can save them a lot of time. Its because the people have got out, kept a distance, and kept those GD useless masks off and got air into their lungs.


10 posted on 10/29/2020 6:39:15 AM PDT by crz
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To: dynachrome

Good thing I got my pneumonia shot


11 posted on 10/29/2020 7:11:24 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: crz

I saw a guy walking on the sidewalk getting ready to go into the grocery store. He dropped his mask on the sidewalk face down, picked it up and strapped it to his face !


12 posted on 10/29/2020 7:13:16 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: lilypad

“I saw a guy walking on the sidewalk getting ready to go into the grocery store”

I saw werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain


13 posted on 10/29/2020 7:17:02 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: dynachrome

I read about 43 years ago, during Jimmy Carter’s Swine Flu Epidemic that didn’t happen, that the real killer in 1918 was opportunistic pneumonia. We had no antibiotics such as penicillin back then.


14 posted on 10/29/2020 7:18:08 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (In FACEBOOK JAIL! again. The words "Brain Dead and Road Ho" got me canned.)
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To: Steven Tyler

“1997, they dug up folks dead from the 1918 flu. In 2005 they reconstructed the 1918 virus. Why, cause those scientist were dummies”

Such things fall under what I have termed “Stupid Virology Tricks”. The gain of function research that may have spawned the current pandemic also falls into that category.


15 posted on 10/29/2020 7:25:21 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (A vote for Biden is a vote to destroy America.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I have to believe that the masks PROMOTE the growth of bacteria and people are actually dying of pneumonia.

So why no record number of pneumonia cases in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, all of whom masked up on Day 1 of this pandemic?

16 posted on 10/29/2020 7:29:44 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Most diseases just weaken you and trigger comorbidities or pave the way for opportunistic infections.

Of all the people that die from the common flu (avg. 36,000 annually) only 3.75% die of “just” the flu (avg. 1350 annually). Also, if you get the flu, pneumonia is the symptom of an opportunistic infection, but with CCP-19, pneumonia is a direct symptom.

WASH your damn mask. You change and wash your underwear (I hope). You have more than one pair, right? Your mask is just as intimate.


17 posted on 10/29/2020 7:48:53 AM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant. Join the war effort. On the human side.)
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To: calenel

“WASH your damn mask.”

Why? I don’t WEAR it. Doing fine without putting underwear on my face!


18 posted on 10/29/2020 7:55:22 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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