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Those two times I had the flu, they lasted a couple of weeks.
The last one started to ease up, then came back in full force.
I never got pneumonia. Just a lot of aches, tissues for my nose and sleeping
I was having 2 children by c-section within about 3 years during that time. I'm still here! At one point, during the second bout, I blew my nose and found out I'm a blue blood. Also while trying to sleep, I could hear a noise like an old man moaning. That just made me mad. Well...it's not only am I blowing my brains out but some old man is trying to take up residence in my chest. So I had to get up and fight back.
1918 Flu Deaths

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. /CDC/
Yea that's closer to the numbers I read about in the eighties in a cookbook of all ways to read it. But I read it was over the course of 3 years.
 

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ahh no wonder i thought it was a Bot bcs of the [CB] and then saying the name Joe
what was he trying to say in the disney Part? i’m curious

Edit: make sure to not put of personal information you put out your brothers Full name and Phone number, just watch out.
Oh by the by that phone number is kinda not connected and I see what you mean. Plus the phone can only do contacts.
 

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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats; Editors: Stacey L Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, and Stanley M Lemon.
"A contemporary estimate put the death toll at 21 million, a figure that persists in the media today, but understates the real number. Epidemiologists and scientists have revised that figure several times since then. Each and every revision has been upward. Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who won his Nobel Prize for immunology but who spent most of his life studying influenza, estimated the death toll as probably 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million. A 2002 epidemiologic study also estimates the deaths at between 50 and 100 million (Johnson and Mueller, 2002).

The world population in 1918 was only 28 percent of today's population. Adjusting for population, a comparable toll today would be 175 to 350 million".
 

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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats; Editors: Stacey L Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, and Stanley M Lemon.
Yes and that will happen this time also. The real numbers won't be known.
 

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I was having 2 children by c-section within about 3 years during that time. I'm still here! At one point, during the second bout, I blew my nose and found out I'm a blue blood. Also while trying to sleep, I could hear a noise like an old man moaning. That just made me mad. Well...it's not only am I blowing my brains out but some old man is trying to take up residence in my chest. So I had to get up and fight back.

Yea that's closer to the numbers I read about in the eighties in a cookbook of all ways to read it. But I read it was over the course of 3 years.
I've heard that moan too.
Not only did it only come on everytime I nearly got to sleep, it also made my dog growl.
 

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I've heard that moan too.
Not only did it only come on everytime I nearly got to sleep, it also made my dog growl.
My mother had told me previously that moan is pneumonia trying to start. It was really weird. I didn't know it's actually audible.
 

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I bought Suki in to the vet today for X Ray's of her problematic knees.
Everything was "drive up".
They took her and bought her back through my cars window as I waited outside. And the vet spoke to me via my telephone.
I also paid the bill via the phone.
 

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Hello everyone, for those people waiting on a stimulus check. Just letting you know that I just received a $1200 stimulus check for my Mother. She passed away March 2019 at 94yrs old. So we know how well the Treassury Dept. are checking up on who they send check to. I will be contacting the Treasury Dept. to return it so somebody " ALIVE" can use it.
 

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Hello everyone, for those people waiting on a stimulus check. Just letting you know that I just received a $1200 stimulus check for my Mother. She passed away March 2019 at 94yrs old. So we know how well the Treassury Dept. are checking up on who they send check to. I will be contacting the Treasury Dept. to return it so somebody " ALIVE" can use it.
The intention was good. But I'm sure that the execution of that money was very, very wasteful.
 

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Hello everyone, for those people waiting on a stimulus check. Just letting you know that I just received a $1200 stimulus check for my Mother. She passed away March 2019 at 94yrs old. So we know how well the Treassury Dept. are checking up on who they send check to. I will be contacting the Treasury Dept. to return it so somebody " ALIVE" can use it.
I think they are just trying to get it out as fast as they can to help us. Mine came in a check delivered by the post office even though they have my direct deposit info. I filed taxes in 2018. Really though, you're saving yourself a lot of problems later because you're doing the right thing now. They will still have accomplished their goal even if you're honest or dishonest. The irs has it's ways.
 

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It may very well be.
I've only heard it when I was really sick
Sorry it took me so long to respond. The fact that a dog heard the old man moan told me too much. You hearing it also set off a ton of questions so my mind is in overdrive. 1) Is it audible to other humans or just dogs? And doctors have decided to prescribe a service animal for people. 2) What about other animals. Can they all hear their surroundings better then us? Then question after questions... 3)another question. Is that why smart people decide to become a slave to so many critters?☺
 

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Sorry it took me so long to respond. The fact that a dog heard the old man moan told me too much. You hearing it also set off a ton of questions so my mind is in overdrive. 1) Is it audible to other humans or just dogs? And doctors have decided to prescribe a service animal for people. 2) What about other animals. Can they all hear their surroundings better then us? Then question after questions... 3)another question. Is that why smart people decide to become a slave to so many critters?☺
My old dog. CHESTER could indeed tell if I was sick, etc. And he acted totally differently depending on it.
My new dog, Suki is unfortunately not very "sharp". Shall we say.
She's not very observant, but she let's me know if I'm making strange moaning sounds.
 

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My old dog. CHESTER could indeed tell if I was sick, etc. And he acted totally differently depending on it.
My new dog, Suki is unfortunately not very "sharp". Shall we say.
She's not very observant, but she let's me know if I'm making strange moaning sounds.
You are the only person I somewhat know that has heard that. Let alone your dog. I thought I was a bit batty for a while. But I got up with fists flying because my mum had warned me.
 

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You are the only person I somewhat know that has heard that. Let alone your dog. I thought I was a bit batty for a while. But I got up with fists flying because my mum had warned me.
I remember it well.
Right as I dozed off. Every time I dozed off.
It sounded like someone elses voice.
I had a high fever and aches.
I was very tired. But that stupid noise kept me awake.
That and Suki growling....
 

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I remember it well.
Right as I dozed off. Every time I dozed off.
It sounded like someone elses voice.
I had a high fever and aches.
I was very tired. But that stupid noise kept me awake.
That and Suki growling....
I've never forgotten it. It was such a strange noise and experience. I was so sick with two babies in the early 80's. I decided to get up one way or another. I guess your little friend Suki could hear it also. Maybe they don't have to be the sharpest chip on the block. They can just luv you.
 

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When's the last time anyone has seen an aerosol can of Lysol spray?
I heard on the news today that most of those things come from China and that's why there's a shortage. They mentioned Lysol and the wipes also.
 

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