Posted on 09/30/2021 7:24:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini’s fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was, her daughter said, someone who didn’t make a habit of giving up.
And then this month, at age 105, Primetta Giacopini’s life ended the way it began — in a pandemic.
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Is the 1918 flu related to The Spanish Flu?
Same thing.
Slapped he on a ventilator to kill her, no doubt.
Dammit! Another permanent Democrat voter.
Death by old age, how unexpected! That good woman had to be over 100 years old.
Jeez…she was 105. That’s a good run. But, it doesn’t take much of anything to send someone that age to their maker.
So it’s not just the flu then.
5. Average age of “Covid death” is greater than the average life expectancy. The average age of a “Covid death” in the UK is 82.5 years. In Italy it’s 86. Germany, 83. Switzerland, 86. Canada, 86. The US, 78, Australia, 82.
In almost all cases the median age of a “Covid death” is higher than the national life expectancy.
As such, for most of the world, the “pandemic” has had little-to-no impact on life expectancy. Contrast this with the Spanish flu, which saw a 28% drop in life expectancy in the US in just over a year. [source]
https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/
No. I will NEVER count her as a Covid death and the headline is preposterous.
Some kinda woman! There won’t be any like that from THIS generation.
Important to remember, please——
1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in Chinahttps://www.nationalgeographic.com › adventure › article
Jan 24, 2014 — The worldwide flu pandemic that killed 50 million people in 1918 may have originated with transported Chinese laborers, archival records ...
Fixed it.
-PJ
List of oldest living people when they died. Oldest so far is
1 Jeanne Calment[7] 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days[b] France
2 Sarah Knauss[8] 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people
If not for covid, she might have lasted another 25 years!
/s
I’m shocked!! A 105-year-old woman died! If not for Covid, she would have lived forever!
BS. They will live decades longer than you or I.
Keep pissing on the younger folks. They the people who are going to change our diapers. And sooner than we think.
Beat me to it.
And one or more of her numerous comorbidities I suspect she most likely had. I know she had at least 1, her age.
“The first cases of the outbreak were recorded in Haskell County, Kansas, and Fort Riley, Kansas, where young men were being hospitalized for severe flu-like symptoms. A local doctor sent a report to the Public Health Service, but no one was sent to investigate the situation. On March 4, 1918, an outbreak appeared at Fort Riley, with as many as 500 soldiers hospitalized within a week. Within a month, however, the number of patients dwindled and it seemed that the flu had passed its course. Many of these soldiers were sent to Europe to help fight in World War I. While in Europe the disease mutated and became deadly. By May many reports of soldiers falling ill were reaching the U.S. It did not take long for the disease to spread from the soldiers to the civilian population of Europe, and then around the world.”
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/flu-epidemic-of-1918/17805
Kansas? China?
http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/wacky.wav
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