knackeredII
I agree with the direction of your post except the great flue epidemic of 1918 had a mortality rate of about 2.5% not 30.0% as you quoted (See the link below). It had a very similar mortality rate to SARS except SARS is obviously not as infectious as the Spanish flue otherwise we would be seeing people dropping like flies which isn’t happening. This is a complete media beat up which needs to be addressed by people sending the media outlets letters and e-mails of what they think of their reporting.
www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
