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Originally Posted by Monsoon65
That's not bad. In the book, "The Great Influenza" by John Barry, he has anecdotes of people showing no signs of being sick dropping dead in the street.
Flu seems to kick old folks and the little ones in the ass. Spanish flu seemed to hit the younger folks. One theory is that they were malnourished and not as healthy due to the war going on in Europe. Another is that the old weren't hit so hard because they may have had some immunity due to the Russian flu of 1889-90.
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Flu in the 1918-19 pandemic killed quickly via cytokine storm. The stronger the immune system the more ravaging the response. Young adults and pregnant women were particularly vulnerable.
COVID19 kills by attrition, over weeks and weeks, patients finally dying of exhaustion if at home and from sepsis and organ failure if intubated or on cardiopulmonary bypass.
The hero physician of Wuhan who was arrested and interrogated for warning of covid took 3.5 weeks to die. He selfied a week before he died. It’s a long slow insidious slide and it absolutely eats resources. An ICU nightmare.