swine flu reality
Posted on April 29, 2009 - Filed Under picture of the day
i know i said i was sick of hearing about it and now here i am posting again. . . so, first off, this is bad news and terrible for those you are losing people but i think it is good to put it into perspective before everyone jumps off the deep end completely.
here, from the vancouver sun about the 1918 flu pandemic:
It’s estimated that about 28 per cent of Canadians and Americans contracted the Spanish flu. Worldwide, an estimated 2.5 per cent of the sick died of complications, which made the pandemic one of the most lethal flu outbreaks in recorded history. Certainly it was one that imprinted itself upon human consciousness for several generations.
But there’s another way to look at those statistics. You might observe, for example, that they mean that even during the worst ravages of the 1918 flu, 97.5 per cent of those infected survived and recovered. Or that 72 per cent of the population — even in the absence of the sophisticated public health planning and infrastructure that Canada and the U.S. have since built — was not infected during the pandemic.
So, even if we had a repeat of the 1918 flu, the chances were seven out of 10 that you wouldn’t catch it and if you did, the odds were better than nine out of 10 that you’d survive.
of course remember that in those statistics, the first one is looking at canadians and americans only. but still, worldwide, the survival rate of ALL affected was 97.5%. and that’s for the worst flu pandemic we’ve ever seen.
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