[cfgeeks] 1918 Spanish Flu video

[Damien McKenna]

The flu, unless modified, is still not a serious illness for people  
who can rest, take care of themselves and who don't already have an  
underlying ailment. There are several problems with this, though,  
chief among them being that pharmacutical companies world-over  
experiment with these disease strains, creating hybrid diseases that  
have not been found in the wild. An example of this would be the avian  
flu *samples* that were sent around the world instead of vaccines in  
2009..

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On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>  
wrote:

> On Friday 26 February 2010 17:16:14 John Mayson wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Damien McKenna <damien at mc- 
>> kenna.com> wrote:
>>> We also aren't recovering from a major world war and we don't have
>>> starvation and sanitation problems. Additionally there's less out- 
>>> and-out
>>> medical experimentation with dangerous chemicals in crazy  
>>> quantities,
>>> though it does still continue (DDT in Africa, India, etc).  You'd be
>>> surprised how much of a difference clean water can make to a  
>>> nation's
>>> health.
>>
>> All of that too.
>
> Everything you guys say is true, but it won't help in a true pandemic.
>
> The big news of the Spanish flu wasn't any of the things you mention  
> -- it was
> simply that the human race had never encountered anything like it --  
> we had no
> antibodies anywhere close.
>
> The flu is not a minor disease. It's rendered fairly minor by all  
> the things
> you guys said, but most of all by the fact that we've had experience  
> with
> similar flus before, so we're primed and ready to shoot it down when  
> it enters
> our body.
>
> Swine flu was very contageous, but luckily for us its effects were  
> relatively
> minor.
>
> Bird flu is different. In its few and narrow adventures into human  
> bodies, it
> killed over half. If it gets to the point where person to person  
> transmission
> is easy (it's already happened, but if it gets easy), and if it  
> doesn't lose
> its deadliness, it could make the Spanish Flu look tame.
>
> You guys mentioned many factors that will make a future pandemic less
> gruesome, but there's one that will make it worse -- population  
> density. Our
> cities are much denser and much more populous than in 1918.
>
> It could be really bad.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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The flu, unless modified, is still not a serious illness for people  
who can rest, take care of themselves and who don't already have an  
underlying ailment. There are several problems with this, though,  
chief among them being that pharmacutical companies world-over  
experiment with these disease strains, creating hybrid diseases that  
have not been found in the wild. And example of this would be the

--
Geekin' out on my iPhone

On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>  
wrote:

> On Friday 26 February 2010 17:16:14 John Mayson wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Damien McKenna <damien at mc- 
>> kenna.com> wrote:
>>> We also aren't recovering from a major world war and we don't have
>>> starvation and sanitation problems. Additionally there's less out- 
>>> and-out
>>> medical experimentation with dangerous chemicals in crazy  
>>> quantities,
>>> though it does still continue (DDT in Africa, India, etc).  You'd be
>>> surprised how much of a difference clean water can make to a  
>>> nation's
>>> health.
>>
>> All of that too.
>
> Everything you guys say is true, but it won't help in a true pandemic.
>
> The big news of the Spanish flu wasn't any of the things you mention  
> -- it was
> simply that the human race had never encountered anything like it --  
> we had no
> antibodies anywhere close.
>
> The flu is not a minor disease. It's rendered fairly minor by all  
> the things
> you guys said, but most of all by the fact that we've had experience  
> with
> similar flus before, so we're primed and ready to shoot it down when  
> it enters
> our body.
>
> Swine flu was very contageous, but luckily for us its effects were  
> relatively
> minor.
>
> Bird flu is different. In its few and narrow adventures into human  
> bodies, it
> killed over half. If it gets to the point where person to person  
> transmission
> is easy (it's already happened, but if it gets easy), and if it  
> doesn't lose
> its deadliness, it could make the Spanish Flu look tame.
>
> You guys mentioned many factors that will make a future pandemic less
> gruesome, but there's one that will make it worse -- population  
> density. Our
> cities are much denser and much more populous than in 1918.
>
> It could be really bad.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
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