The point is not that the 1918 pandemic wasn't a global tragedy, it's that comparisons are fraught when the world has changed so drastically in 100 years
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Well, if you listened to chiropractors back in March, you'd have heard them talking about how awesome chiropractic did in curing and preventing
#influenza... Not so much anymore. Back to business as usual.pic.twitter.com/EbwfbSCxzf
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Exit bonus question: How do we know COVID isn’t a data artifact?
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What is that excerpt from?
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Oh right forgot to link to the paper. Here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44447656.pdf …
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How many of those hospitalized for COVID today would survive with 1918 levels of care? No extra oxygen, no asthma medicines, no antibiotics for secondary infections, no steroids to reduce cytokines, no blood thinners, no ICU. Not even manual ventilation.
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its unimportant at the end of the day - health professionals and epidemiologists will survey the smoking ruins they've helped create through panic, and continue to double down on "at least we saved you from THIS [insert nightmare numbers]"
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