“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.
Yeh I’m one of the anti vaccers. This isn’t 1918 and 10% protection isn’t worth the risk of the vaccine but its a choice everyone has to make. I’m staying away from crowds, busy stores etc for the next 6 weeks.