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**Ygd2qr8k** · 04-27-2009, 07:26 PM

That's the common [and dangerous] perception.

Read about the 1918 -1920 Spanish Flu pandemic. It killed so many people so quickly that no one knows even an approximate number. So the estimates are 50 to 100 million dead.

Apply that to who got it and the state of the medical system at the time.

Were these deaths the direct result of the flu, or from bacteriological infections of the lungs due to pneumonic reaction from the flu?

All of today's flu virus strains are descendant of the virulent 1918 virus. All it would take is a mutation for a similar pandemic. Again, you have to look and see where this is coming from. You want to Panic? Go on ahead. I hear they are selling Theraflu at the local market. Pick up as many packages as you can! You never know what may come next!!!!

The lesson is simple. Take care of yourself. Don't be afraid to go to the doctor. What I have been hearing from doctors and others in the profession is that this callout is just a warning, not an actual threat as of yet, and that the arial strain of this virus seems substantially less strong than the one aquired through direct contact. (That was just a line I heard on the news this morning while getting ready...).

Alonzo, do you have any more info on the 20 that died? What was the ratio? What socioeconomic group were they in? How old were they? It is always horrible when people die, but when an 80 year old dies from the flu, you do not set the entire population to panic.

04-27-2009, 07:26 PM	#13
Ygd2qr8k Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	That's the common [and dangerous] perception. Read about the 1918 -1920 Spanish Flu pandemic. It killed so many people so quickly that no one knows even an approximate number. So the estimates are 50 to 100 million dead. Apply that to who got it and the state of the medical system at the time. Were these deaths the direct result of the flu, or from bacteriological infections of the lungs due to pneumonic reaction from the flu? All of today's flu virus strains are descendant of the virulent 1918 virus. All it would take is a mutation for a similar pandemic. Again, you have to look and see where this is coming from. You want to Panic? Go on ahead. I hear they are selling Theraflu at the local market. Pick up as many packages as you can! You never know what may come next!!!! The lesson is simple. Take care of yourself. Don't be afraid to go to the doctor. What I have been hearing from doctors and others in the profession is that this callout is just a warning, not an actual threat as of yet, and that the arial strain of this virus seems substantially less strong than the one aquired through direct contact. (That was just a line I heard on the news this morning while getting ready...). Alonzo, do you have any more info on the 20 that died? What was the ratio? What socioeconomic group were they in? How old were they? It is always horrible when people die, but when an 80 year old dies from the flu, you do not set the entire population to panic.
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