COVID-19 'Pandemic'

petros

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JLM said:
Huh? If it wasn't for a few smart people like Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tams, deaths may well number in the millions. How many succumbed to the Spanish Flu?
P.S. "The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States. An unusual characteristic of this virus was the high death rate it caused among healthy adults 15 to 34 years of age."
Should we be learning something from this? A guy I worked with many years ago lost his mother to the Spanish Flu at age 28.
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The same Tam that called you a racist?
 
Tecumsehsbones

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JLM said:
Thanks Pete, for setting that straight. (there seems to be a few ignorant people who choose to take this potentially fatal disease lightly)
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Well, crap. My bad, totally.

Reading too fast, mixed you up with pgs.

Appreciate the catch, petros. And I apologize to you, JLM.

Gonna give myself five minutes in the box for dumbassery.
 
JLM

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petros said:
Stop yourself for a momemt and ask, "WTF was I thinking? One death in 37 million ISN'T really the start of something is it?"
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Normally no BUT a second wave is predicted and many think (as in 1919) it could be much worse than the first so that is where I got that from. I don't think it will be that bad, but I have no knowledge to say it won't be either. I like most people am hoping for the best, but not ignoring chances of the worst.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing

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JLM said:
Huh? If it wasn't for a few smart people like Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tams, deaths may well number in the millions. How many succumbed to the Spanish Flu?


P.S. "The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States. An unusual characteristic of this virus was the high death rate it caused among healthy adults 15 to 34 years of age."


Should we be learning something from this? A guy I worked with many years ago lost his mother to the Spanish Flu at age 28.
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Tam had opportunities to quash this before it was a this and failed either due to blissful ignorance or political pressure. I am not one to sing her praises.


COVID seems to not be causing the same deaths as the Spanish Flu but does seem to leave more people with complications.
 
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JLM said:
Normally no BUT a second wave is predicted and many think (as in 1919) it could be much worse than the first so that is where I got that from. I don't think it will be that bad, but I have no knowledge to say it won't be either. I like most people am hoping for the best, but not ignoring chances of the worst.
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There has never been a pandemic without a second wave. I don't know if it will be worse than the first. Nobody does. That is sheer speculation. Anybody who claims to know anything about its size is talking out their ass and can be ignored.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Well, crap. My bad, totally.

Reading too fast, mixed you up with pgs.

Appreciate the catch, petros. And I apologize to you, JLM.

Gonna give myself five minutes in the box for dumbassery.
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No problem, Bones, the way the forum is set up it's easy to get posters crossed up and I never thought you really thought that anyway.
 
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JLM said:
You obviously haven't read up on the Spanish Flu, the first wave (1918) was very mild, it was the second wave in 1919 that did most of the killing. Don't think for one minute the same thing couldn't recur now. You heard about the 19 year old in Quebec who succumbed this week. How do you know THAT isn't the start of something? As much as you think you know I'll take the word of the professionals.
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I don’t claim to know anything , but the so called experts have been wrong on practically everything so far , why should I b Eli eve or trust them ? Until I see reasons to change my opinion I intend to keep on carrying on . It appears to me the majority of my friends and neighbours feel the same .
 
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JLM said:
Huh? If it wasn't for a few smart people like Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tams, deaths may well number in the millions. How many succumbed to the Spanish Flu?
P.S. "The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States. An unusual characteristic of this virus was the high death rate it caused among healthy adults 15 to 34 years of age."
Should we be learning something from this? A guy I worked with many years ago lost his mother to the Spanish Flu at age 28.
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My father survived the Spanish flu. He was about three years old. People just kept working.
 
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