Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969

[Into the Night]

“Fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for several reasons:

“Some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957”

“The pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading”

“Improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill”

“The availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

Flu is not a bacterium. It's a virus.
You are ignoring the numbers.

[Into the Night]

You are not a citizen of the United States, you do not live here, and our domestic affairs are none of your business.

Irrelevance fallacy.

[Into the Night]

It was not as transmissible. Corona is unusually so.

You are ignoring the numbers again.

[Hawkeye10]

Are you being sarcastic? 50% of the victims were under 65, it killed many young and fit people whereas this virus kills mostly the elderly! There were many that got it in Vietnam but I'm not sure if those hot counted in the statistics for the US, I suspect not.

I was there...I dont remember hearing about it...in fact that summer I took a week long train trip to the West with my Dad and brother....

I do remember having perfect attendance at school for three years running around this time...

I never got sick, not even a lick.

I felt gypped.

[Into the Night]

Do I need to repeat the facts again?

Your numbers cover nearly two years, COVID has done in 100,000 in three months. Today we have considerable numbers dying from the seasonal flu when a five minute stop at the corner drug store will give on the protection, so there are always going to be numbers of avoidable deaths

All these virus aren’t the same but COVID is new, novel, no existing immunities, no preventative measures

The '100,000' is a lie. Many of these cases were not Covid related deaths. They were records falsified by coroner offices, and later stuff made by various States. Why? To gain federal money of course, and for governors to justify their usurping power.

[Into the Night]

The number of deaths determines which is most deadly, not the age group.

Irrelevance fallacy.

[Into the Night]

I am on public record here saying I have no opinion on shut downs. I defer to the expertise of public health professionals, like Trump's own expert Dr. Fauci.

I stopped reading after the first paragraph because you are going to have to up your game if if you want to interact with your intellectual superiors

There is no 'elite'. Sorry, you cannot justify an oligarchy or dictatorship that way.

[Into the Night]

Rightys say the dumbest shit. We have over 100,000 dead. We used masks, social distancing, and gloves, yet 100,000 died. What would the toll have been without that? This is the worst since 1918 when they did the same things. It is more transmissible than the seasonal flu and more dangerous in spite of what Rush says.

Masks do not stop viruses. Their only effective use is as a lucky charm talisman. 6 feet does not stop a virus. Gloves are improperly used, and will not stop viruses either, the way people are using them.

It is not any more transmissible than any other flu, and it's the same vectors for infection. Most people who get it don't even bother with a hospital it's so mild. The people who are dying are already dying from something else anyway.

[Into the Night]

And what we have here as a poster who has no understanding of this virus, or any virus for that matter, nor events as they are occurring around him today, Trump knew they were out there even before he descended down the escalator

No, that would be YOU. You are a classic case of agoraphobia. You believe masks actually stop a virus. You believe gloves actually stop infection the way you use them and remove them. You believe this virus is an automatic death sentence (it isn't).

It is because you are illiterate about virus, about the N95 specifications, about the use of nitril gloves, and about mathematics, which show the infection rate is quite low (not even qualifying as an epidemic, much less a pandemic). It is also going down. The death rate too is even lower, and is also going down.

Not a vaccine in sight.

[Hawkeye10]

No, that would be YOU. You are a classic case of agoraphobia. You believe masks actually stop a virus. You believe gloves actually stop infection the way you use them and remove them. You believe this virus is an automatic death sentence (it isn't).

It is because you are illiterate about virus, about the N95 specifications, about the use of nitril gloves, and about mathematics, which show the infection rate is quite low (not even qualifying as an epidemic, much less a pandemic). It is also going down. The death rate too is even lower, and is also going down.

Not a vaccine in sight.

No vaccine is likely and the "experts" still have almost no clue how this thing kills us, or what to do about it, or much of anything else for that matter....

FUCK ME

[Into the Night]

No vaccine is likely and the "experts" still have almost no clue how this thing kills us, or what to do about it, or much of anything else for that matter....

FUCK ME

It kills by interfering with respiration, if it kills at all. It is those with weak systems already that succumb to it. They are dying already. Quite a few deaths are marked as 'by Covid', when Covid is not involved at all. Several coroners have been falsifying records, a felony in some States, and they are getting sued for it. At this point, we don't know how many are infected, or how many 'died from' Covid, as opposed to something else. There are just too many instances that show these numbers are essentially random in nature (of type randU0.

[Nordberg]

Corona is much more transmissible and more virulent. Healthcare pros compare it to 1918 flu.

[gfm7175]

Corona is much more transmissible and more virulent. Healthcare pros compare it to 1918 flu.

The rice-a-rona is not any more transmissible than any other flu. Most people show mild symptoms at most. My cousin (a nurse) and her husband (both are reasonably healthy as far as I am aware) contracted the rice-a-rona. They are both doing just fine, as is the case with most all people at their age and respiratory health status.

There is no reason to fear monger over this virus.

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The rice-a-rona is not any more transmissible than any other flu. Most people show mild symptoms at most. My cousin (a nurse) and her husband (both are reasonably healthy as far as I am aware) contracted the rice-a-rona. They are both doing just fine, as is the case with most all people at their age and respiratory health status.

There is no reason to fear monger over this virus.

There is reason to believe that cities like Stockholm and London are approaching herd immunity and the figure is around 20% not 60%. The US Centers for Disease Control hardly a hotbed of libertarian nut jobs, announced last week: the infection fatality rate of Covid-19 is nowhere near 3.4 per cent as first feared, but around 0.26 per cent. Seasonal flu’s IFR is 0.1 per cent, 0.2 per cent in an especially bad year. Thus Covid-19 is barely more lethal than a bad flu.

[cancel2 2022]

Do I need to repeat the facts again?

Your numbers cover nearly two years, COVID has done in 100,000 in three months. Today we have considerable numbers dying from the seasonal flu when a five minute stop at the corner drug store will give on the protection, so there are always going to be numbers of avoidable deaths

All these virus aren’t the same but COVID is new, novel, no existing immunities, no preventative measures

Not three months, the first case was detected in December of last year. It's also not that new as it is an RNA virus very similar to SARS. They were developing a vaccine for that back in 2003 but it petered out, Farr's Law in play, and there weren't enough people to test it on. The same seems to be happening with this virus as well.