Coronavirus- Spanish flu. Similar

[Jollygoodfellow]

After watching this documentary which came out in 2018 I now see why a lock down is a good thing.

I have no idea of facts here but if you have time please watch and comment. Honestly this is an eye opener even though things have changed since then. 

Anyway got to go out for awhile.  

 

 

[intrepid]

Sure seems like a lot of similarities between the Spanish Flu and what we have now.  Also seems like maybe some of our leaders around the world have learned something from this.  I sure hope it can be contained and not mutate like the Spanish Flu.  I didn’t catch the death rate in the video but one thing for sure it was fast enough to kill you within a day of first symptoms.  Scary if it would get like this again.  After watching this you can understand why the isolation is so important.

[intrepid]

The video explains there where several names and where they came from.

[Kuya John]

Well the opening post is certainly food for thought Gentlemen.

[bastonjock]

The spanish flu allegedly started in Kansas USA , the people who work these things out are 99% certain thats where it started 

As far as films ,movies etc go 

We will be battered with a deludge of them in the years following the end of the virus

 

[Dave Hounddriver]

29 minutes ago, bastonjock said:

The spanish flu allegedly started in Kansas USA , the people who work these things out are 99% certain thats where it started 

I cringe when statistics get thrown around like that.  I am inclined to believe the Spanish Flu was also started in China, based on this article from National Geographic:

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Even as the pandemic's origins have remained a mystery, the Chinese laborers have previously been suggested as a source of the disease.

Historian Christopher Langford has shown that China suffered a lower mortality rate from the Spanish flu than other nations did, suggesting some immunity was at large in the population because of earlier exposure to the virus.

In the new report, Humphries finds archival evidence that a respiratory illness that struck northern China in November 1917 was identified a year later by Chinese health officials as identical to the Spanish flu.

 

 

[davewe]

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"Even as the pandemic's origins have remained a mystery, the Chinese laborers have previously been suggested as a source of the disease.

Historian Christopher Langford has shown that China suffered a lower mortality rate from the Spanish flu than other nations did, suggesting some immunity was at large in the population because of earlier exposure to the virus.

In the new report, Humphries finds archival evidence that a respiratory illness that struck northern China in November 1917 was identified a year later by Chinese health officials as identical to the Spanish flu."

 

The current assumption is that the Chinese are cooking the books and that their deaths are far higher than reported. Quite possible. It's also possible that their numbers are relatively accurate but that as in the quote above they'd already had outbreaks and a certain amount of her immunity. The importance of knowing this is that experts are using the China experience to demonstrate how to flatten the curve. But what if their curve is flatter because they's already seen Covid-19 before November 2019? 

 

[hk blues]

21 hours ago, davewe said:

But what if their curve is flatter because they's already seen Covid-19 before November 2019? 

 

There is a fair chance the virus had been around a bit before it was officially recognised. Not necessarily due to Chinese games, but the nature of the virus meaning many are carriers without displaying symptoms. I'd even go as far as to say it is highly unlikely the 1st case was really the 1st case.

 

[Reboot]

If COVID-19 had happened in 1919, it would probably have killed more people than the Spanish Flu. Thankfully, the state of medical sciences has greatly improved over the past 102 years.

[Dave Hounddriver]

2 hours ago, Reboot said:

COVID-19 had happened in 1919

Since it is now 2020 and not 1919, why isn't it called Covid-20?