Comments by "Vary Olla" (@varyolla435) on "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century" video.

  1. Not terribly bright I see........ Let me guess = you get your supposed "news" from that Never-Never Land known as "conservative news" - an oxymoron coincidentally.... 🤦 Flip on Faux News = 2nd star to the right - and straight on til morning........ 🙄
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  2. It can't be that unique considering all the sub-variants of Influenza in circulation and the number of species that virus can infect. It is simply another run of the mill zoonotic viral pathogen which has been around for a long time now - allowing its infectibility capacity across many species. p.s. - "Spanish Flu" (H1N1) represents "the beginning" of tracking the Influenza virus because that was the one in the 1930's researchers first were able to really identify and associated it with the 1918 outbreak. Influenza certainly existed prior to this point and thus it is doubtful H1N1 was the original "Flu virus". It was simply the first one we isolated and subsequently classified.
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  3. China = Asia = largest landmass in the world = area of low technological development = area of high international commerce = point of spread for many zoonotic pathogens. 🤔
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  4. All airborne viral pathogens require the same basic measures of mitigation: social distancing/hand washing/masks. Unlike then however we today have the benefit of antiviral medications and vastly improved medical treatments - as well as a vaccine. Thus the former can help reduce your chances of being exposed so as to be infected to a degree. The latter are what help you once you are infected. In the end however the goal as always is to prevent exposure and subsequent infection. For that to happen the virus must be cut off from its host to reduce local morbidity. Vaccination is the most effective way to achieve this as you can via mass vaccination trigger an immunological response in large numbers of people very quickly. In the case of Influenza - and now Covid - there is a limit to such mitigation because these viral pathogens are = "zoonotic" - hence they exist in other species. We can not therefore eradicate them. All we can do is to wage an ongoing campaign to limit their spread and hence the adverse impact of their presence in communities. They are a part of the environment now. 🤔
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  5. Yes "fresh air" is always a good thing. What causes an airborne viral pathogen to spread however is = proximity. So the reason being inside was bad is because that made exposure easier as you are in close proximity to others who might be infected themselves to spread it around to others. Upon becoming infected however being outside for "fresh air" will not alter your situation. Infected who are out and about obviously only end up infecting others.
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  6. Actually what is funny is how some make the claim you have......... Apparently they skipped school on the day geography was taught otherwise they would recognize that "China" = is actually part of Asia...... - which happens to be the largest landmass on the planet. Thus in so much as 75% of infectious viral diseases which afflict man are of zoonotic origin + that Asia as the largest landmass with still wild areas contains many animal reservoirs for those viral pathogens + it further represents an area of considerable international travel since it is where much of the global manufacturing takes place = it makes perfect sense after all. 🤨
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  7. Any parasitic organism which requires a host to replicate inherently maintains the capacity for mutation owing to the idiopathic nature of human hosts. While we are all "similar" we nevertheless on a genetic level contain differences. Many are idiopathic while some reflect exposure to our environments. Add to this the fact and most viral pathogens which afflict many are of zoonotic origin. Hence they mutate largely as a result of their jumping back and forth between species - such as the Influenza virus does. If you look you will see that viruses which are considered to be "human specific" do not tend to mutate as readily as zoonotic ones given their singular host.
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  8. Covid has become endemic. So yes the "pandemic" is over because the virus has found a home in man and other species such that it is now impossible to eradicate entirely. All we can do is to try to mitigate its presence much as we do with other zoonotic viral pathogens like say Influenza. 🤨
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  9. No......... Influenza is not Coronavirus = completely different organism. Just because 2 unrelated viruses attack the same areas of the body to elicit similar symptoms - like a respiratory infection say - does not make them the same. It just means the viruses can infect the same cells in the body. Lots of viruses can infect respiratory cells as that is how such illnesses are primarily spread.
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  10. Possibly. The thing about "younger" people though is their bodies are still growing and lacking a lifetime of accumulated exposure and immunity they tend to "react" more strongly than an older person who might have as you alluded to some "cross-reactivity" having already been exposed to a similar viral pathogen.
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  11. 🤦 "China" = "Asia" = largest landmass on the planet = highest population density in the world = still "wild" areas = area of the greatest amount of industrialization = subsequent high area of international travel = area of widespread deforestation and encroachment into those wild areas = "all of above" lends to zoonotic disease creation and transmission.........
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  12. Darwin always wins in the end obviously........... The sad part however will not be the loss of the conspiracy-addled imbeciles who frankly added nothing to the human genepool = it will be the innocents they drag down with them. That is how it has always been. The many pay the price for a handful of idiots......... 🤷
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  13. The problem with "freedom" of course is = it often comes at the expense of another's freedom. That is why in the public space it becomes a balancing act. People "want" the benefits of community living. They do not however have a supposed "right" to the same. When someone walks out their front door to interact with others they are tacitly acceding to certain rules of conduct. They will not willfully put those others at risk - and the others will reciprocate. That is what the vaccine opponents can't seem to grasp. For them their worldview usually does not go any further than the tip of their nose being egocentric and hence = selfish. 🤨
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  14. Yes it was. Partly because of the state of public health/medicine - or lack thereof - and largely due to its communicability.
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  15. "Inflammation" is inherent to our immune response. If carried away however it can as alluded to cause damage to us as well as any pathogens infecting us. So mortality rates with any novel pathogen are by definition higher as there is no herd immunity established to slow spread and our bodies never before encountering the organism do not know how to respond. As time goes on however mortality rates tend to drop for various reasons - herd immunity + better medical response and so forth. p.s. - the Covid virus contains a lot of bat DNA. That is significant since bats are the only mammal which flies. Why is that important? Answer: to fly demands a very high metabolism - read body temperature. So any viruses which colonize bats to subsequently "jump" to humans have the potential to resist very high body temperatures = hence subsequent cytokinetic storm as the immune system pushes the body temp higher and higher trying to defeat the virus until it exceeds our own temperature limits and cellular destruction occurs.
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  16.  @gamefixxer5974  Both are zoonotic pathogens and both arose from species man regularly interacts with and consumes. That coincidentally is usually how it is done. About 75% of infectious viral diseases which afflict man came from other species owing to wet markets and commercial food production. Influenza often arises from porcine and avian sources whereas Coronaviruses are prevalent in bats which are routinely consumed in Asia and Africa. They spread of course owing to human interaction given our today large communities and immigration and business travel. Asia happens to be the largest landmass on the planet which still contains "wild areas" as well as a business hub for the world + it is where most of the world's population resides. So lots of infectious diseases begin in Asia to spread abroad = it is simply a matter of geography and population density.
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  17. It has already mutated. Also "Bird Flu" obviously came from = birds....... So the Influenza virus being "zoonotic" is capable of jumping between various species to eventually jump into man as numerous other species of that virus have done. As an aside. About 75% of viral pathogens which afflict humans = came from other species. Because we consume them + live alongside them and encroach into wild areas which are their home they eventually "jump" into human populations.
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  18. Ah...... = no. If you do not understand the science here then simply say so and others can help with you that. Absent that perhaps it would be best not to broadcast your poor assumptions - just saying.
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