History Channel and National Geographic says it did.
What are your sources?
Bet he doesnt answer (with anything of substance)
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918.
It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
While the 1918 H1N1 virus has been synthesized and evaluated, the properties that made it so devastating are not well understood. With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly.
History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC
As far as panic-inducing and shutting our economy down, this is a bust so far. The death rate in the US at THIS POINT Is well below 1%.
They will get the 15 days, and by the end of that 15 days, the drumbeat will already be well underway to open the schools and get us all back to work EXCEPT, perhaps, in the most affected areas.
And by the way, that is exactly the right response.
Hope you are right. I thought and still think a mandatory lock down (except for food, doctor's appointments or other emergency) for around 15 days would have been prudent. That means closing down wall street, all banking (meaning no bill payments), etc. After the 15 days up, the curve would go down. Until it does, we will not be at peace in the mind. Simple as that.
The number will go up dramatically as more testing is done. We will face the explosion, which hasn't happened. We are at where Italy was about 30 days ago. There about. We were 50 days behind China at the beginning of the month.
That, is what to expect and the longer we go not doing the inevitable nationwide Lock down, the longer it will be before we see anything close to normal.
Again, hoping you are right, but when I see those young spring break losers....
When we see those people now deliberately sneezing on produce in stores. We ought to be able to assault them without any repercussions. Think about it. If we saw someone trying to kill your family, we are justified to use lethal force. Doing that threatens the entire world.
