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Be Honest - anyone not going to Follow Boris's advice
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1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say
Chinese laborers transported across Canada thought to be source. ... "This is about as close to a smoking gun as a historian is going to get," says historian James Higgins, who lectures at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and who has researched the 1918 spread of the pandemic in the United States. "These records answer a lot of questions about the pandemic." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/ Amusingly that 2014 article describes the 'Spanish' flu as 'The Last of the Great Plagues'. |
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Quite apart from the obvious risk of transmitting the bug to his dear old Mum, the OP seems to have missed the fact that if we don’t comply with the new directives, harsher ones will follow.
No doubt he will be at the forefront squealing about his civil liberties being taken away when we have ration books and movement permits. Seems to me that the Govt’s biggest mistake here is to underestimate the stupidity of its people. They simply can’t be trusted to do what’s best for themselves and society and so that ability to choose to do the right thing, that their forefathers fought so hard to protect, is about to be taken away from them. |
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Historian Mark Humphries of Canada's Memorial University of Newfoundland says that newly unearthed records confirm that one of the side stories of the war—the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British and French lines on World War I's Western Front—may have been the source of the pandemic.
Writing in the January issue of the journal War in History, Humphries acknowledges that his hypothesis awaits confirmation by viral samples from flu victims. Such evidence would tie the disease's origin to one location. The Spanish flu reached its height in autumn 1918 but raged until 1920, initially gaining its nickname from wartime censorship rules that allowed for reporting on the disease's ravages in neutral Spain. Physicians began debating the origin of the pandemic almost as soon as it appeared, Higgins says, with historians soon joining them. A decade after the war, Kansas was identified as another possible breeding ground, due to reports of an influenza outbreak there that spread to a nearby Army camp in March 1918, killing 48 doughboys. Humphries concedes that a final answer to the mystery of the Spanish flu's origins is still a ways off. "What we really need is a sample of the virus preserved in a burial for the medical experts to uncover," Humphries says. "That would have the best chances of settling the debate." Appears inconclusive to me, but then I don't have an anti-China agenda.  |
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It's more an anti-Chinese Communist Party agenda right now. But an antipathy to people who for centuries have revelled in animals being slaughtered haphazardly and barbarically in front of their eyes, with all the viral consequences of the lack of hygiene and supervision, also has a lot to do with it.
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