[nuconvert]

“When the Spanish flu was killing people, we had no antibiotics for any secondary infections involving bacteria, we had very little access to IV technology for hydration (that took off in the 1950s), and aspirin was considered new, cutting edge treatment for fever.

The high death rate for Spanish Flu says a lot about the medical situation in 1918.”

Exactly. I made this point in a discussion with a friend yesterday.

[Zhang Fei]

[Exactly. I made this point in a discussion with a friend yesterday.]

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People I know in the medical profession are much more pessimistic, given all the drug-resistant bugs that have sprung up since. It’s a treadmill. We come up with new drugs and Mother Nature figures out a way to one-up our puny efforts. This may be the big one doctors have been talking about for the past century. Nothing dramatic like zombies - just mass grave after mass grave as occurred with the Spanish flu.

[Ozark Tom]

Where are the antibiotics manufactured? How great is the stockpile? Foreign sourced?