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Related to COVID-19, OTD in 1918, the first case of Spanish flu was confirmed
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:11 am
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:11 am
This is what a real global pandemic looks like:
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known as the Spanish flu, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus, with the second being the swine flu in 2009.[1] It infected 500 million people around the world,[2] or about 27% of the then world population of between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million[3] to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.[4][5] Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin.[2]
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Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:12 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Put the stops on WW1 too
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:15 am to cable
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Put the stops on WW1 too
so it actually saved lives
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:16 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Ah so it had about the same mortality rate as the corona virus?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:16 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic.
However some Pacific Islands had zero cases as their governors banned any ships from making port.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:20 am to JG77056
Corona ain’t infecting 500 million people, baw.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:27 am to TigerFanInSouthland
My gg grandfather was a victim of it. My gg grandmother was pregnant with my great-grandfather. Had he gotten the flu a few months before I probably wouldn’t exist.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:28 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Mortality rate, not mortality numbers. The mortality rate is per case
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:33 am to JG77056
I know what you said. But don’t you think that mortality rate is a bit skewed in CV’s favor when it hasn’t even infected a fraction of Spanish Flu?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:36 am to TigerFanInSouthland
My father has a letter written by his great aunt (I can't remember if it is late 1918 or early 1919) to his grandmother, just stuff about what was going on and asking about family and so on (great aunt was in Iowa and Grandmother was in Kentucky). In the letter she mentions her, and her son feeling a little ill, but just mentions it in passing. By the time my great grandmother got the letter, both the great aunt and her son were dead from the Spanish Flu.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:38 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Maybe they should have stopped international travel and quarantined some folks earlier on.
(Sarcasm, btw. I know they didnt know what they were dealing with)
(Sarcasm, btw. I know they didnt know what they were dealing with)
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 7:42 am
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:40 am to ksayetiger
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:42 am to TigerFanInSouthland
My brother keeps using the Spanish Flu as a fear spreading case.
I tell him, 2020 isn't 1918, I think we have better technology and health care than in 1918.
I looked it up, less than half of the USA even had electricity in 1918
I tell him, 2020 isn't 1918, I think we have better technology and health care than in 1918.
I looked it up, less than half of the USA even had electricity in 1918
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:43 am to TigerFanInSouthland
It’s not. Spanish flu is a huge outlier compared to all the other viral epidemics of the last 3 centuries. None have killed more than 2 million people except Spanish flu which is around 20-50 million. For covid19 to hit than number it would have to infect 7 billion.
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 7:44 am
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:44 am to TigerFanInSouthland
My Grandpa was in the Army training to go to WWI with his Infantry unit at Fort Sill. The Spanish Flu hit the camp (he didn’t appear to have gotten it personally) but his unit was so debilitated that they had to be sent piecemeal to other incoming recruit units and they all start basic training all over. Had he not had the four month delay, he’d have gone to France and that Hell. As it was, the Armistice was signed before his new unit shipped out and he went home after a couple months of guarding Army bases stateside.
tl/dr: Gramps didn’t go to WWI bc Spanish Flu
tl/dr: Gramps didn’t go to WWI bc Spanish Flu
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:47 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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Corona ain’t infecting 500 million people, baw.
Google what rate means, baw.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:47 am to soccerfüt
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My Grandpa
How old are you? Like 70?
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 7:50 am
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:48 am to soccerfüt
My great grandfather contracted the Spanish Flu on a troop ship back to the United States from France in 1919.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:52 am to cable
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Put the stops on WW1 too
Then everyone went home and spread it across the world.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:52 am to TH03
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Google what rate means, baw.
I know what it means. What I meant by that is, it’s impossible to tell if the rate would sustain at its current level when it’s sitting at 115,000 compared to 500,000,000 for the Spanish flu, or 0.00023% of the number that was infected for the Spanish flu.
And compared to Spanish flu, CV hasn’t infected a fraction of a fraction of the amount of people.
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 7:56 am
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