Actually, I have been. It still does not make sense. Most deaths have been young/middle aged healthy people. And frankly, And I suspect anyone who survives in Mexico probably has a pretty healthy immune system!
Deaths from the flu in Mexico had risen last night, reported on “Nightline”.
The flu epidemic back at the turn of the 20th Century was also among younger, healthy persons. I read about a theory of why it happened that was interesting. The writer thought that the recent (then) advent of aspirin worldwide had contributed to it, and not in a good way. His theory was that soldiers from all over the world returning from WWI had benefitted from aspirin on the battlefield and, naturally, brought it home and recommended it to their friends and family (naturally and innocently). However, that being an infectious disease and people taking aspirin early in the illness when they first came down with a fever caused the bacteria to get a foothold in people’s bodies.
Fever is the body’s natural solution to fighting and killing bacteria, etc., and stopping an infection in its tracks before it spreads. Aspirin does lower or eliminate fevers artificially. (I suppose if a fever gets high enough, it can be dangerous - but most people won’t tolerate even a mild fever today. Back then, aspirin was regarded as a miracle drug.)
Don’t know about this theory, but it makes pretty good sense. Now, I’ll tolerate a bit of fever as long as it doesn’t go into the dangerous range.