[Georgia Girl 2]

I read that the 1918 flu mostly killed younger people. Middle age and seniors not so much.

[mgstarr]

My uncle died in the 1918 flu epidemic at the age of one.

[rktman]

We didn’t get to 70 by being dumb. :-)

[Article10]

Correct, late teens to mid thirties age bracket... pushed a healthy immune system into overdrive, fluid filled lungs, heart failure in hours.. pretty rough

[Pelham]

“I read that the 1918 flu mostly killed younger people. Middle age and seniors not so much.”

Probably not mostly, just way more than usual.

1918 flu was an animal/human hybrid flu. A swine flu or bird flu.

These influenzas can provoke a cytokine storm, a massive immune system response. The real flu is lung disease, and the lungs of the young and healthy filled with immune cells and fluid and suffocated the young and strong.

That’s why the medical types of the CDC seem to panic when a hybrid flu shows up and want you to get the vaccine. These have the real potential to kill by the tens of thousands. The antivaxxers will get to be overrepresented when one rolls around. Their choice.