Observation about Modern "Pandemic" Event Occurrence
Quick note to document something I’ve said on X and to friends:
It makes no sense whatsoever that modern "pandemic" events have all occurred or been declared off-season of normal “winter” mortality (e.g., October 1918, April 1957, July 1968, March 2003, May 2009, March 2020).
…as though a respiratory pathogen would "lie in wait" and not be activated during "the season".
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Updated after publication to include 1957 and 1968. Post subject to additions without notice.
The evidence which suggests that influenza, or acute respiratory illness with such symptoms as influenza, is not transmissible raises a few questions for me which I would be grateful any help or direction you might be able to offer:
1. How do people develop influenza-like illness? Given that influenza and illness with similar symptoms are real, what is the theorized mechanism by which people develop such illnesses? If there is no person to person transmission, how is it that so many people seem to develop similar illnesses within proximate time frames, and seemingly often within households where people are in close spatial proximity? Do each of them happen to have similar vulnerabilities which cause similar illness when exposed to some other common factor or pathogen in the environment? What might that factor be if not a “virus”?
2. What are the implications for “bird flu”? Is it real? Is it real, but grossly exaggerated? Does an illness with influenza symptoms transmit among birds? If so, why would an illness that has been labeled bird flu transmit among birds but the illness labeled influenza not transmit among people? If not, why do so many birds in close time and spatial proximity succumb to “bird flu”, or do they not? Why are chickens vulnerable but so many other birds are not? Could it be that bird flu is an exaggerated or false scare intended to achieve some other purpose such as intentional unnecessary destruction of poultry?
I realize this may be asking quite a lot and these questions are only the tip of the iceberg, but grateful for any insight you can provide or helpful relevant information you can point toward to enable a basic layman’s framework for how to think about these illnesses. Perhaps Dr Yeadon can provide some insight.
Yeppers. And makes no sense that the largest vulnerable group - the young - is spared