Posted on 07/21/2023 5:50:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff
influenza pandemic of 1918–19, also called Spanish influenza pandemic or Spanish flu, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, among the most devastating pandemics in human history.
Influenza is caused by a virus that is transmitted from person to person through airborne respiratory secretions. An outbreak can occur if a new strain of influenza virus emerges against which the population has no immunity. The influenza pandemic of 1918–19 resulted from such an occurrence and affected populations throughout the world. An influenza virus called influenza type A subtype H1N1 is now known to have been the cause of the extreme mortality of this pandemic, which resulted in an estimated 25 million deaths, though some researchers have projected that it caused as many as 40–50 million deaths
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My grandparets were prime victims for the virus and they survived.
I heard Keith Richards barely survived the pandemic of 1918
A variant is still circling the Earth.
It’s amazing how I knew this and I also knew that flu and coronaviruses mutate and circle the globe forever.
Yet somehow all doctors didn’t know this and said the vaccine would work.
Amazing…
It was deadly because it struck all ages, healthy and otherwise. Dr. Fauci is thinking . . . hmmmm “gain of function”.
Your link is in denial that the Spanish Flu came from China and was spread by Chinese workers imported to the US and Canada to service the troops of the two countries in menial task.
I read somewhere that OLDER people fared better during the Spanish Flu epidemic than teenagers and young adults. The speculation was that there was an earlier epidemic in the 1870s that was a similar virus strain to the Spanish Flu, and the older people who survived the earlier epidemic may have developed an enhanced immunity that helped them deal with the later one.
Fauci was still in medical school in 1918. :-P
My understanding was that the healthy died due to a cytokine storm because the healthy immune systems overreacted.
I bet the obesity rate didn’t go up during that pandemic.
Freegards
This last variant was total BS on steroids.
Hospitals over-cycled the PCR test to a 90% false positive test to get their $18,000.
In January 2020, Fauxi said masks don’t stop viruses (I’m an Ophthalmologist and know they don’t) and this is just a bad flu.
After the WEF met he did a 180.
This and climate change scare are all about control
No arguments from me.
I still see an occasional loser wearing a mask in the parking lot while alone…
They called it “The Spanish Flu” because Spain was the only country that didn’t censor the reports on the flu.
Some think the flu was the primary reason Germany gave up fighting in WWI and seeked an Armistice, their ranks were so decimated by the flu, they could no longer field enough troops.
The media just blamed Trump for the 1918 Pandemic.
This killed my great aunt at 3 years old.
"influenza pandemic of 1918–19"
Emphasizing that I am not medically trained, please consider the following.
If I understand the years under the vitamin D types section at the first link below correctly, vitamin D2 was not identified until 1931, after the influenza pandemic, D3 by 1935.
Vitamin D (non-FR)
Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin (non-FR)
I still wonder if medical history might have turned out happier if vitamin D3 had been discovered before vaccines were discovered and CV19 experimental jabs had been invented.
I'm very sorry about that and God bless her soul. I just never knew anybody effected by the Spanish flu.
Whenever people would get upset if I compared COVID to the flu I would point out that the 1918 flu pandemic killed more people than WWI and was one of the worst pandemics in the history of mankind.
More members of my grandmother’s family died from tuberculosis than the Spanish flu.
It got my grandfather at the tail end in 1919. Got my mother’s cousin at Camp Upton in 1918.
It’s good that we recognize the difference. COVID targeted the elderly, those with the co-morbidity of Obesity, other co-morbidities.
105 years ago the Flu targeted all ages.
Did gain of function intend to target those economically unproductive? Or did it just happen to turn out that way?
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