Crazy crazy crazy

@mahgister, I’m wrong for asking such…

My deepest apologies! 

One could cut the air with a knife

thecarpathian's "wrong" seem's with experienced authorial absoluteness (!) in which no more explaination is required. Please, prey tell ...

I shall tell you exactly why, sir.
Influenza is a virus. It is always a virus. A virus is known as an ’infective agent’. It is known as that because it is not a living organism as it requires a host cell to reproduce.
A bacterium is a prokaryote, a single celled living organism, of which some cause disease.
They are two completely, irrevocably different things.
So, now that we know that, the rest of your claim is also of course, utter nonsense.
But I do understand the twisting of facts behind your statement that I assume was first published by some conspiracy theory site.
Would you like me to ’prey tell’ that, also?

There is no hell ….. but if there is Im sure it would be an endless circlejerk conversation about vaccines, politics, religion, fuses, exceptionalism and nationalism.


The only conversions possible among the members of this forum might be to get a solid state person to consider tubes or vice versa. If there is a g*d, I hope she has a sense of humor and resembles Nelson Pass.

Influenza is a virus. It is always a virus. A virus is known as an ’infective agent’. It is known as that because is not a living organism as it requires a host cell to reproduce.
A bacterium is a prokaryote, a single celled living organism, of which some cause disease.
They are two completely, irrevocably different things.

Give the man credit, this is spot on.

The only thing it leaves out, pneumonia is an infection in which the lungs become inflamed and filled with fluid that interferes with oxygenation. Pneumonia can be viral or bacterial. Bacterial infections are opportunistic. That is to say, bacteria are always present, awaiting only the opportunity to infect. Viral infections can weaken a person to where they become susceptible to bacterial infections such as pneumonia.

So someone with Spanish Flu could indeed contract and even die of bacterial pneumonia. But that is not even remotely the same as saying Spanish Flu was a bacterial pneumonia. This is categorically false.

Score one, thecarpathian.