Reply To: The Spanish Flu
As usual Wikipedia is pretty good on this. I read it last week and seem to remember that it says the virus eventually became self-limiting as it killed more and more potential carriers....
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Yes, that’s interesting and encouraging. And probably the best hope with Covid-19.
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Is that really encouraging? I’m not sure. The original Government response seemed to be to facilitate just such a situation and they got panned for suggesting it.
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Its encouraging in the sense it did end by itself in a relatively short time. Unlike something like smallpox which kept going for thousands of years killing large numbers every year until it was ended...
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Interesting that it was the second wave which proved so lethal, just what we need to avoid risking now by lifting the restrictions too soon.
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You would assume the economic impact of spanish flu was much greater since it massively affected those of working age (15-44). So far COVID is following the normal profile and mostly affecting the old...
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It’s not in a virus’ “interest” to kill it’s host. Viruses tend to become less aggressive with age, and obviously if the kill more and more of their hosts,eventually they die out too. since there is a...
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They have no colour because they are smaller than the wavelength of light so they can’t have a colour! To be slightly picky, with a diameter of 120 nm, Coronavirus is smaller than the wavelength of...
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(*cue drunken student arguments about whether the blue I see is the same as the blue you see…) That’s a maybe, but we’d both agree the sky is blue, what we’re both experiencing might be very...
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