If folks have been as fats, unhealthy and previous when the spanish flu ran by the kill rely would have been a lot increased within the USA then.  If the USA had some semblance of an actual nationwide consciousness in direction of health and well being, the loss of life toll would have been a lot, a lot decrease from covid.

What we’re saying right here is solely “COVID is much less deadly than the Spanish Flu in an absolute sense, however present residing habits make it extra harmful”. Effective, however you could contemplate lethality in context when deciding how harmful one thing is. Bubonic plague with antibiotics is a joke as it’s a bacterium, bubonic plague earlier than antibiotics was extraordinarily deadly. Since you possibly can’t change residing habits on a dime, then it’s important to deal with the truth of the menace as it’s. Saying “COVID will not be harmful… so long as we reside in 1920!” is saying nothing.

   I feel he harped on Individuals as a result of the spirit of the founding of the USA was not weaklings screeching a few virus with masks on, it was folks going out to the center of nowhere, chopping down timber and establishing a life with household and burying their useless as they went.  Individuals immediately are a protracted fucking methods from that.

Dunno whenever you assume that “immediately” begins, however through the Spanish Flu Individuals appeared down at that virus with the identical derision and obtained between 500,000 and 850,000 deaths when the US inhabitants was round 105 tens of millions (congratulations to present US for having obtained the “1,000,000 useless from COVID!” achievement, BTW).

I feel that the creator of this “wonderful article” will get a Herman Cain Award. The article itself will not be fully truthful, however is is an efficient instance of “accuse the opposite of what you’re doing”.

Many Individuals have proven that they’re gullible group-thinkers who lack crucial considering abilities.

True, and this text is written for them. Nowhere, for instance, is even debated the idea of “lengthy COVID” and even “each mattress and each ICU unit occupied by somebody with COVID are denied to somebody with different afflictions; similar with the physician’s time.” I assume that the reply can be “COVID was by no means that harmful (God instructed me so).”

However why ought to I spend time deriding debunking an article that declares…

Individuals haven’t any tolerance for rational discourse.

Individuals are headline readers of tacky and plainly biased information sources, they usually readily internalize slogans and labels.

Individuals lack primary sample recognition and an consciousness of historical past or primary science.

And the wonderful closure…

Individuals are unwilling to confess they have been flawed.

…Once I agree with all of the above? I even agree with:

If 18th Century Americas have been as timid as immediately’s Individuals, British monarchs would nonetheless rule us.

…As in “18th Century Americas” ships have been quarantined even when germs hadn’t been found. Saner minds for positive.

 Spanish Flu and Covid are NO WHERE CLOSE IN LETHALITY.

Fortunately so: provided that Individuals (not all of them, after all) are exhibiting the exact same similar pressure of stupidity that we noticed with the Spanish Flu, a variant of COVID with the identical lethality would have brought on by now between 1,750,000 and a couple of,800,000 useless – not “solely” 1,000,000 (whereas nonetheless producing articles as moronic because the one we noticed).

I by no means understood what the cutoff for the US is earlier than folks begin to say “You recognize? Possibly this bug is a bit on the sturdy facet”. 1,500,000 useless? 2,000,000? 5,000,000? Simply to know. As a result of both COVID will lower in energy naturally or the States will get there.

     If folks have been as fats, unhealthy and previous when the spanish flu ran by the kill rely would have been a lot increased within the USA then.  If the USA had some semblance of an actual nationwide consciousness in direction of health and well being, the loss of life toll would have been a lot, a lot decrease from covid.

What made the Spanish flu so devastating was that it killed unusually extra younger and match folks than weak and feeble.

This was as a result of it triggered a cytokine storm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm and the more healthy and stronger your immune system was, the extra highly effective the cytokine storm. To place it easy.

Covid-19 additionally triggered related cytokine storm associated deaths, it is simply that medical science has progressed because the 100 years of the spanish flu, so now we all know higher the best way to forestall and counteract it.

So I disagree with the argument that “nicely, folks within the US ought to’ve simply been more healthy and exercised extra.” with reference to Covid (however I do agree folks within the US ought to attempt to be extra wholesome and train extra typically)

the “different facet” is non cease propaganda will outright lies wrapped into it, that man no less than was respectful sufficient to simply exaggerate and soapbox and didn’t spew outright lies.  Both means, all articles and data sources are an increasing number of changing into propaganda, the place the folks placing it out don’t care to let you know what occurred, they’re telling you the best way to really feel and react to what occurred.

The actual propaganda will not be after they let you know one thing you’re anticipated to imagine, however after they let you know one thing you’re not anticipated to imagine. The very ridiculousness of DPRK propaganda, for instance, is by design: it establishes state energy that no-one dare query what they are saying, nonetheless ridiculous. In the event that they stated issues that have been simply sort-of off, that might invite dialogue and argument, which they definitely don’t need.

It is when governments begin spouting clearly absurd stuff regularly that we should get apprehensive.

the “different facet” is non cease propaganda will outright lies wrapped into it, that man no less than was respectful sufficient to simply exaggerate and soapbox and didn’t spew outright lies.  Both means, all articles and data sources are an increasing number of changing into propaganda, the place the folks placing it out don’t care to let you know what occurred, they’re telling you the best way to really feel and react to what occurred.

The actual propaganda will not be after they let you know one thing you’re anticipated to imagine, however after they let you know one thing you’re not anticipated to imagine. The very ridiculousness of DPRK propaganda, for instance, is by design: it establishes state energy that no-one dare query what they are saying, nonetheless ridiculous. In the event that they stated issues that have been simply sort-of off, that might invite dialogue and argument, which they definitely don’t need.

It is when governments begin spouting clearly absurd stuff regularly that we should get apprehensive.

Stuff like, “We’re not in a recession, inflation is not an issue, we have now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, vaccines will shield you from catching Covid”?  Ought to I be apprehensive?

And for absolute absurdity, remember “Trump did not lose the election;  it was stolen.”