With all the technology, medical science, vaccines, and trillions of pounds sterling invested into pharmaceutical companies why is it that an end to this pandemic can not be a commitment made by any medical officer I’ve seen or heard?
Between the years 1918 and 1920 an estimated 50 million people died of the Spanish Flu. It infected about one-third of the world’s population and then it ended. To my knowledge, very little if anything of what I’ve itemised was available to the medical profession during those years so how was it ended?
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Hi Danny, I googled when did Spanish flu end and History.com says it never has. It says we are still living in a 1918 pandemic era. It’s very interesting and you can read the article here: https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended
I didn’t know that it hadn’t ended but it makes perfect sense. I guess it will be the same with this pandemic.
I say Covid is different from the Spanish flu and other pandemics as are the times we are living in. Nice summation.
From the information I found through Google there have been 217million cases and 4.55 deaths from COVID since it began, which is an awful lot less than the 50 million who died in 2 years from illness related to Spanish flu.