[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I had the Hong Kong flu OMG thought I was going to die really sick for 2 weeks another week to feel halfway human again, I have NEVER had another flu or cold since then, NEVER had a flu shot either I often wonder if my system built up an immunity after that virus!! I have owned and worked in restaurants my entire life and NEVER got sick again really wired!! Yes this was a very bad virus YET the country went on as normal of course we didn’t have a 24 hour news propaganda source scaring the hell out of people with daily death counts, daily case counts, constant hysteria day after day so there’s that!!

[grundle]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Some of the comparisons are apples and oranges. Keep in mind the population was smaller then. 70% of America was infected by the Flu, the death rate may have been as high as 200,000 people. Adjust the deaths in the US then for today and what is that?

Adjust the total infections and death rate worldwide then for today and what is that?

Whatever Vaccine was invented came pretty late to help as the it was pretty much over with. Today’s Flu vaccines are only partially helpful, depending on what strain of the Flu they think will be dominant in a given flu season.

[shanover]

I was born in ‘69. Hell of a time to be born. America had some of the most magnificent things happen and some of her worst.

[daniel1212]

Why the fixation in the H.K. flu of 68 when the Asian flu pandemic of 1957-1958 resulted in a estimated 116,000 deaths in America (followed by the Hong Kong flu with about est. 100,000 American deaths in 1968–69), when at about 173,000,000, the population size in 57-58 was close to half of what it is now (330,541,000, rounded figures). Meaning that not only was the infection death rate much higher than for COVID-19, but there would have to be about 200,000 COVID-19 est. deaths to be comparable to the Asian flu. Yet that would simply make it basically equal as concerns the numbers of deaths in proportion to population size, but to justify the "CovidCaptivity," one would have to argue that the Asian flu should have necessitated a response like that to COVID-19. The Soviets would have favored that for sure.

The question then is, where was the COVID-19 comparative response in 57-58 in proportion to its threat? Yes, the 116,000 deaths in America to the Asian flu was for the whole year, yet even if we reach about 200,000 deaths (we pray not) for COVID-19 then that type of equality would still mean that the extremely restrictive all-ages long-term response to COVID-19 simply has no precedent in American history, except to a degree with the far more deadly (550,000 to 675,000 Americans, or 0.66% of the population) 1918 flu.

And yet we read ,