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You don't say, we were lied to again?

Archive: https://archive.today/wDUF8

From the post: "IN THE LAST hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. A fast-moving, fatal pneumonia had infiltrated the base, and the ward he supervised was packed full of desperately sick men."

You don't say, we were lied to again? Archive: https://archive.today/wDUF8 From the post: "IN THE LAST hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. A fast-moving, fatal pneumonia had infiltrated the base, and the ward he supervised was packed full of desperately sick men."

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[–] • 2 pts

No mention of massive doses of aspirin causing "pneumonia." In reality it was fluid from extreme blood thinning from toxic or nearly toxic doses of the new wonder-drug. People were taking several grams of aspirin a day for the Spanish flu.

[–] • 1 pt

Of course they end with “making minorities less poor will protect everyone.”

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Much like the famous picture of the iron lungs in NYC - that was all of them in the city of a few million.

The story stills tries to dance around by stating that the disease killed everyone. Really, however, it just confirms what we already know - that illnesses can and do affect the compromised more than the healthy. Of course, it is Wired, so they have to tow the line or get cancelled.