“It faded away due to mitigation, without even a vaccine.”
Mitigation does not cause pandemics to fade away. It delays the spread to a level at which the health care system can cope. It faded away due to herd immunity, just as the Black Death of the 1300s did. The Spanish Flu was not effectively mitigated. The health care systems were swamped in the middle of a war and the demobbing of huge armies at the end of it.
It was estimated that between 17,000,000 and 50,000,000 died of the Spanish Flu out of an estimated 500,000,000 cases world wide. There were efforts at mitigation, but claiming that it “faded away” because of them is popycock, like saying a hurricane ended because you turned on a fan in your living room. Ultimately, herd immunity kicked in and ended the pandemic, which has not recurred since 1920. Mitigation helped in developed countries such as the US and England, but could not even be practiced in the third-world crap holes that get touched by a global pandemic.
Did we go for “herd immunity” to smallpox? Polio?
Why not? THINK!
1. Uh...because there were vaccines that finally rid the earth of them.
2. Because Polio never was a pandemic, just a debilitating affliction that crippled its occasional victims and turned them into flaming leftards like FDR and Justice Douglas.
You are wrong. 2/3 of the world’s population did NOT get infected with Spanish Flu, survive, and gain immunity.
Do a little research before spouting off.
The 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Vaccine Development
September 26, 2018
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/vaccine-development-spanish-flu
“First, the numbers. In 1918 the US population was 103.2 million. During the three waves of the Spanish Influenza pandemic between spring 1918 and spring 1919, about 200 of every 1000 people contracted influenza (about 20.6 million). Between 0.8% (164,800) and 3.1% (638,000) of those infected died from influenza or pneumonia secondary to it.”
So, with no vaccine, and no herd immunity, Spanish Flu faded out.
I would strongly suggest you read up on polio.especially the early 1950s..there were more than “occasional victims”.