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Throck

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11. Makes me wonder if pandemics are part of evolution?

Fri Dec 17, 2021, 09:47 AM

Dec 2021

I read an article several years ago where pandemic archeologist were excavating permafrost in Alaska to find bodies of person who had perished from the original strain of the Spanish Flu in hopes of obtaining a sample to study.

With COVID and only being 2 years into this shitstorm, lots has been learned because of technology but yet the virus is still not fully understood. Humans vs nature, sometimes the humans lose.

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How did the Spanish Flu die out? [View all] no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 OP

My understanding is that that it didn't die out Sherman A1 Dec 2021 #1

People either died or they developed immunity. nt TexasTowelie Dec 2021 #2

It's still around today. Native Dec 2021 #3

What an interesting link Alice Kramden Dec 2021 #7

Makes me wonder if pandemics are part of evolution? Throck Dec 2021 #11

That's the problem with uncontacted tribes IronLionZion Dec 2021 #12

I read about that guy too. BigmanPigman Dec 2021 #13

My dad said his earliest memory was of a neighbor multigraincracker Dec 2021 #4

It didn't. You probably have had it. Loki Liesmith Dec 2021 #5

People still die of the flu, mostly the elderly. Tomconroy Dec 2021 #6

Roughly Feb. 1918 - April 1920 . ... Lovie777 Dec 2021 #8

Whatever the pandemic was back in time none of them were totally wiped out. Ka-Dinh Oy Dec 2021 #9

except smallpox of course - we nailed that one pretty good Blues Heron Dec 2021 #10