Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/14/2009 2:12:30 PM PDT by decimon
El crap ping.
I get it. If one thing happens after another then the first must have caused the second! This means that my Dad’s getting discharged from the National Guard on Dec 6, 1941 caused the Pearl Harbor attack.
I could be a professor! Get me grant money now!
I give this guy credit for trying to look a little deeper into causation, rather than just saying GLOBAL WARMING or BUSH’s FAULT
Samuel P. Bush. He became an adviser to Herbert hoover after causing the 1918 flu.
Shades of Tim McCarver and Ralph Kiner’s long running joke during Met telecasts about El Niño being the cause of everything that goes wrong.
Some more idiocy. 25M to 100M dead, out of a world population of 1800M. Or 1.4% to 5.6%. In the US, where the disease probably originated, the rate was 0.6%.
The Black Death of the Middle Ages killed probably 20% to 30% of the population of Eurasia.
Previous epidemics in the time of Pericles and Justinian (and many others) had similar death rates.
During the 16th century the native population of the Americas was reduced by somewhere between 80% and 95%, almost entirely due to epidemics caused by the merging of the Afro-Eurasian and American disease ecosystems.
The 1918 flu, for all the suffering it caused, doesn't even bear comparison to such incredible catastrophes.
Aggie scientists at work!
I think the horrid conditions of World War I had more to do with the spread of the Spanish Flu than El Nino.
No horrid war conditions in the U.S. It seems to be true that the flu started in the the U.S. and spread to Europe through our soldiers. And apparently spread elsewhere from Europe.
They're saying it hit India hard and probably due to their drought. Maybe more so due to their population density.
Still lots of speculation here.
I nearly did the same back in the Army but with a dump truck and a water trailer. Does that qualify me to teach at Texas A&M?
Actually, they’ve traced the beginnings of the flu to Alaska and the garrisoned U.S. troops there, who were subsequently transported across North America and to Europe, where they spread it throughout the former war zone.
I thought it was the Midwest pig country. Iowa, maybe.
 |
||
| · join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · subscribe · | ||
|
|
|||
Gods |
Thanks decimon. |
||
|
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
|||
There you go, bringing up inconvenient facts.
Interesting theory, but our guys seem to have debunked it. I love this place.
The presently most accepted theory is that the flu started in Haskell County, western KS, and went with a draftee to Ft. Riley in N. Kansas. From there it spread in all directions as soldiers were shipped out. Travel on super-crowded trains and troopships created conditions for transmission about as effective as modern airliners.
Another beautiful piece of rhetoric, murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.