COVID-19 is magically sent back to pangolins in January 1914 China with the help of Alien Space Bats
- Thread starter WolfBear
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It's not worse than the "Spanish" flu, but hitting in 1914 it takes priority over WWI. Nobody can fully mobilize because they have to maintain quarantine procedures making WWI either not happen or be low intensity enough that the sunk costs that prevent diplomatic resolution don't exist.
Then in 1917 the public health measures still in place for COVID-14 stop the "1918" flu from becoming a pandemic.
And then it becomes a low lethality endemic disease because that's the survival strategy viruses evolve towards.
All in all it just killsteals from the flu and possibly prevents or reduces the impact of WWI.
Then in 1917 the public health measures still in place for COVID-14 stop the "1918" flu from becoming a pandemic.
And then it becomes a low lethality endemic disease because that's the survival strategy viruses evolve towards.
All in all it just killsteals from the flu and possibly prevents or reduces the impact of WWI.
I wouldn't say that. The Spanish flu and Covid 19 targeted different demographics. The Spanish flu had a habit fo striking down those in the prime of life while Covid 19 targeted the elderly or weak.
The death count will be worse especially when sanitation and isolation where so much less of a thing back then, it won't kill steal but things will be worse the only question being by how much.
Chiron
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Every animal was tested at the Wet Market, none had Covid-19. The Virus did not come from there and the first cases came from the WIV workers.
That being said, the virus rips across the world, kills millions and burns out as Doctors throw everything they can think of at the problem till something works.
Did the capacity for a COVID-19 vaccine actually exist in 1914, though? The first polio vaccine didn't come until 1955, afteer all.
Chiron
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I'm talking stuff like Vitamins, HCQ, and other antivirals which we know work. But Big Pharma has suppressed.
There's less international travel, no air travel, and even less intranational travel.
Back then they understood the secret to controlling pandemic spread without completely shutting down the economy: quarantine the sick not the healthy.
It's quarantine policies already being in place that will render the "1918" flu minor, not them effecting the same demographics. If it had been sent back to three years after the actual start of that pandemic instead of three years before it would have been the one rendered irrelevant.
Back then they understood the secret to controlling pandemic spread without completely shutting down the economy: quarantine the sick not the healthy.