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Some have said it was the packed ships carrying troops to Europe.

My grandparets were prime victims for the virus and they survived.

1 posted on 07/21/2023 5:50:22 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I heard Keith Richards barely survived the pandemic of 1918


2 posted on 07/21/2023 6:04:57 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

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…


3 posted on 07/21/2023 6:05:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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It was deadly because it struck all ages, healthy and otherwise. Dr. Fauci is thinking . . . hmmmm “gain of function”.


4 posted on 07/21/2023 6:06:38 PM PDT by BipolarBob (My friend David got his ID stolen, so now he's just Dav.)
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To: DallasBiff
“remains uncertain where the virus first emerged”

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.

5 posted on 07/21/2023 6:10:04 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


6 posted on 07/21/2023 6:10:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: DallasBiff

I bet the obesity rate didn’t go up during that pandemic.

Freegards


9 posted on 07/21/2023 6:16:16 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: DallasBiff

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.


12 posted on 07/21/2023 6:26:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

This killed my great aunt at 3 years old.


14 posted on 07/21/2023 6:40:20 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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Thank you for referencing that article DallasBiff.

"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.

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.

15 posted on 07/21/2023 6:44:36 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: DallasBiff

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.


17 posted on 07/21/2023 6:50:08 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: DallasBiff

More members of my grandmother’s family died from tuberculosis than the Spanish flu.


18 posted on 07/21/2023 7:05:30 PM PDT by madison10
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To: DallasBiff

It got my grandfather at the tail end in 1919. Got my mother’s cousin at Camp Upton in 1918.


19 posted on 07/21/2023 7:55:32 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: DallasBiff

My Grandmother, on my father side of the family died as a result of this epidemic, in late October 1918 ... less than two weeks before the end of WWI. My father was five years old and his sister (my aunt) 3 years old. My grandfather remarried a few years later and had children from his second marriage.


23 posted on 07/21/2023 8:20:16 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: DallasBiff

Steve Milloy, the owner of the junk science website has done extensive research on the Spanish Flu for anyone who is interested.


24 posted on 07/21/2023 9:26:49 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: DallasBiff
My gramdmafied in early 1919, leaving my grandpa with five children, my mon at 3 and her broyher at 4. The three older sisters were of an age able to take care of themselves, but not so as to look after the two youngers what with school and cooking and all. But grandpa had to work toprovide, so he had to turn over the younger ones for foster care. Realy good foster parents were found for them, two different families. Eventually, both were adopted, and were raised well. We never lost track of my grandpa and aunts, and visited with them through the years.

Lives go on.

25 posted on 07/21/2023 10:53:52 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: DallasBiff

They injected our men, shipped them overseas, then blamed spain.


26 posted on 07/22/2023 4:19:06 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: DallasBiff

The problem with pulling anything from the internet of lies, regarding the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, is the truth has been removed or manipulated.

Your best option to have any meaningful discussion on this is to locate old history books or hardbound encyclopedias.

How do I know this? At the start of 2020 when they began demanding mask wearing...the study of mask wearing from the 1918 pandemic showing they didn’t help...disappeared from the internet of lies.


27 posted on 07/22/2023 4:28:10 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: DallasBiff

of course they survived, otherwise you and your parents wouldn’t have been born...Mine survived too.


31 posted on 07/22/2023 7:06:41 PM PDT by Coleus (250K attend the March for Life, no violence, break-ins, stealing of podiums/laptops, etc., peaceful)
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