2001 actual flu deaths in US-257
2010 actual flu deaths in US <500
Yet, the 36,000 a year number is constantly recycled.
I read that the 1918 flu mostly killed younger people. Middle age and seniors not so much.
A 68 year old acquaintance of ours died from influenza three weeks ago and while she was being treated her husband of 40 years had a stroke in the waiting room and passed away the same day.
The flu can burn through a nursing facility like napalm.
Nurses aides can be very lax about washing hands etc.
Resident catches the flu, it turns into pneumonia and they’re done.
1918 was like a hundred years ago
and a different World
I’ve only had a flu shot twice. Once in the mid 1990s when my wife was going through a stem cell transplant for breast cancer, and this year since she is fighting gastric cancer. I don’t care if it’s only 10% effective. For her health, 10% is better than nothing.
So, is this financed by the flu shot company? Too bad the strain isn’t even in the syringe.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more American soldiers in their barracks preparing to embark to “The Great War” in Europe than in enemy action.
Viruses were not even known about in 1918. Most of the deaths occurred in the 20-40 age group. They had not been previously exposed to the flu viruses that the older folks had. The virus mutated into a killer and caused the immune systems of the people who contracted it to go into overdrive. They developed rapid pulmonary edema and that is what killed them. If you read any of the eyewitness accounts by medical providers who were there it was a horrible way to die.
In 1918 there were no respirators or steroid drugs that could be used now for treatment. There were no flu vaccinations available then either. We are protected by a certain amount of “herd immunity” because a lot of people do get vaccinated. Including me.
Someone posted this link on another flu thread and they were talking about taking Vit D for the flu - looks interesting. Here’s the link & the last paragraph. BTW, if you’re taking Vit D, you should also be taking K2.
Vitamin D for influenza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic.8 We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar.
“Well duh. Just put up signs like they do for “No guns allowed’’. Yeah...like totally. ‘Cuz like the flu is like rilly, rilly bad ‘n’ stuff and if people like .. didn’t get it then like nobody would have it ‘n’ stuff. There should like be a law that says the flu is bad n’ stuff. Its all Trumps fault too.
Washoe County has a total of 15 flu deaths this season. Mostly people over 65. I think what nails you this season is a follow on infection that rages rapidly through the body.
Things are a little different now, vaccines, better drugs, better hygiene.
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Scare tactics to get people to get the vaccine that will give them every disease known to Medical science to be fatal.
UN Agenda 21 in action!
My wife and I both currently have the flu (she was tested, and came up negative!). She’s on Tamiflu, I started it Friday night, so I’ve just been toughing it out. This is a really nasty strain- I’ve never had anything take me out of action like this.
Most deaths were from the poorer populations. They found the people who could afford meat ( protein) had a lower death rate. These flus attack what protein your body has.