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Originally Posted by tw
That this virus would be any more disastrous than others is mostly about getting people to practice normal precautions.
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I've been wondering about this, myself, and I've noted that no media coverage has discussed the sanitation differences between 1918 and today.
An interesting tidbit I gathered from the PBS documentary on the 1918 flu: the reason the most affected people were healthy, young adults was not because the virus somehow targeted these people, but because it was most likely that the elderly had developed a resistance to that strain of flu thanks to an outbreak of a similar flu several decades earlier.