sbynews

DelMarVa’s Premier Source for Conservative News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest

Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent our advertisers

COVID Has Killed More Americans Than the 1918 Flu

As the highly contagious Delta variant has swept across the United States, the country has reached a tragic milestone.

COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic did, when roughly 675,000 people died.

It didn’t have to be that way.

“Big pockets of American society — and worse, their leaders — have thrown this away” by not getting vaccinated, Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian from the University of Michigan, told the Associated Press.

This happened despite vast gains in scientific knowledge during the past century, including the development of three powerful vaccines approved in the United States to fight the new coronavirus.

“We know that all pandemics come to an end,” Dr. Jeremy Brown, director of emergency care research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health who wrote a book on influenza, told the AP. Still, “they can do terrible things while they’re raging.”

More

Publishers Notes: 

Yeah, but the population then was 103 million, not the 340 million of today.
Yeah, but there weren’t 1.7 million U.S. passengers in the air every day.
Yeah, but 40% of the adult population wasn’t grossly overweight and parked
on a sofa with a Coke and a bag of chips.
Yeah, but the normal life expectancy then was about 50, not almost 80, so more people have old people chronic diseases.
Yeah, but China wasn’t experimenting with killer microorganisms then.
Yeah, but the U.S. wasn’t sending research money to China.
Yeah, but there wasn’t a political side to saving lives or responding to the
disease.

6 thoughts on “COVID Has Killed More Americans Than the 1918 Flu”

  1. Died FROM covid, or just happened to have it? Yes it’s tragic, but give real numbers….the gunshot victim did not suddenly die from covid…the bullet did him in… same with overdose, accident, etc.

  2. …yeah, and they didn’t call death by gunshot a death by the 1918 flu, or death in car accident..etc…etc. death by the 1918 flu. COVID death numbers are a total crock…

  3. Percentage wise, the number of deaths to date compared to 1918 is no where near the .0058% of the 1918 population. In fact the current percentage rate is approximately .0018% or .0032% less! Big, big difference, especially since we have been counting the deaths for a year and one half.

  4. the usa government has killed more americans along with citizens of other countries then all the flu contagions combined through out the history of the world!

  5. I like the Yeah but game!

    Rickie did a PSA about this weekend’s LEO enforcement for the “pop up rally”

    “Yeah – but” he still wore that black under armour golf shirt with rose colored cheeks. Again insinuating Beer-in-hand mentality!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *