This is an example of the difference between scientific descriptions and what as people we call real descriptions.
The 1919 flu killed millions and was highly contangious. What you got was related to this virus but was not the same version that killed millions.
I had this discussion with my wife. What is a nut? Peanut, walnut, brazil nut? And you will find few are true nuts as botanists describe nuts, but to us, a hard crunchy thing, which is smooth and breaks under biting is a nut.
When talking with scientists you need to know the difference between a risk, like winning the lottery, and if I leave my house I will die. I only really care about the dying bit, not the if I win the lottery, though its nice to know.
I like the one in 5 billion years the sun will grow into a red giant and destroy the earth. 5 is a number I understand, but billion is like never. We have lost 130,000 people to covid, too big for me to take in. Two Wembley stadium concerts full, I can relate to, or 130 schools wiped out.
What makes me dumb founded is when some claim governments intend to kill millions of people to shrink the population down. Governments are civil servants and politicians, ordinary people aspiring to serve the community. But to paint them as the enemy, evil beyond compare is easy, and to make them despicable, put the worst crime ever at their door.
What calms me down, is to know paranoid schizophrenics do this with the people they love, like it is normal to think such things. And when you scrap below the surface a little, jumping from there are dangers to this extreme insane idea is actually a small jump, and generates the emotions the speakers already have against the world, which they are certain is out to get them, not just them, but everyone else they can talk to.
I was tested ,the swab sent off ,and told it was the Spanish flu .
I remember that well when I got it done ,very annoying and I waited at the hospital .
it killed a few at ft.Polk .sanitation in 1918,not exactly the best ,open sewers were used then for sewer treatment,even up to the 50s,by,that I mean the pits in the ground to simply get the solids and the rest push out into the ground ,what ever you call that is nothing but a large septic tank . not much added to treat it .
my county had one up stream from groves ,it was used until 1958.
that played a part .
I also don't paint a brush but the fact ,until you serve your country ,get told,warned by the previous generation about the va,and that one was told by the earlier one,
lets see ww2 to present the va hasn't changed ,
all this concern about ptsd has you thinking they care ,we fix ourselves .why?
go tell your Sgt you feel suicidal ,they discharge you ,the va will not pay for your health care at a 10 percent rating but ,I can't simply say that the ssa,Medicare and va care when to get what is promised despite clear and proven disabilities you must hire a lawyer ,
my county ,the only reason we have the the veterans care here is because veterans decided to solve their own dilemma ,the church here didn't touch nor help any homeless ,the Vietnam vets did ,the va guidance ,to guide one to get disability ,was a vet who taught himself how to beat the va and knows the regs and will quote the regs to the va
I'm hardly paranoid ,but I know this from personal experience and battles seen with my dad ,friends and for my wife .
the dod lied to vets about agent Orange ,the nerve agent in Iraq ,now the burn pits for Iraq and Afghanistan .
a healthy bit of skepticsm was ingrained by combat vetearns to me ,these served in Vietnam and retired . I passed that on to the kids,the military will as quickly promote you and turn around and discharge you for that health problem .
that isn't being paranoid