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How the Spanish Flu Worked

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Young and healthy adults died in such numbers, because their age group hadn't been exposed to any h one n one flue before. People whose immune systems were a over amped died from these sidoken storms,. Man, another unusual thing was how fast it killed you. There were cases where you would literally say, i'm not feeling so good, and then 12 hours later you were dead. Can you imagine going to the doctor and the doctor saying, like, better getting line for a casket? That's just nuts. But that's, that's, there's verifiable reports that they do this. Of course, if you were 12, you've seen a lot of life

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