BS. There is no indication that this flu is worse than any other flu. They quote weekly statistics and try to interpolate the numbers as meaning that this is a deadly flu. They want to impose restrictions on us, and this is one way to do it.
There is indication that it is worse for epilepsy.
http://www.epilepsy.com/newsfeeds/press_release/985287
There were 200 kids out at my son’s high school this week. That is way more than average.
His friends are getting fevers of 103. That’s pretty high for high schoolers.
“BS. There is no indication that this flu is worse than any other flu.”
Sure there is. The 1918 flu was an H1N1 variant. Swine flu in the human population is rare. Swine flus that show up in the human population can swap DNA with human flu, and the resulting mutation can be highly lethal. Human flu kills the weak. H1N1 mutations kill the young and healthy. It makes the immune system go into overdrive and you drown in your own antibodies. In 1918 people began showing symptoms in the morning and by evening they were dead. There’s no way of knowing if this H1N1 will mutate into something as virulent as 1918 but the potential is there with human flu season now starting.