In other words without the influenza virus infection the lungs would have been protected.
It's like Andrew Chapados is arguing that the car crash victim did not die from the car crash. She did not die from not wearing her seat belt. She died from the crushed skull sustained as her head went through the windshield. Technically correct, but beside the point.
2017 - "a dismal introduction on the threat of epidemics" 'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs' - Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
2019 - "We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support" WORLDWIDE THREAT ASSESSMENT of the US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf
Nitpicking.
From the link in the video: "most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs"
In other words without the influenza virus infection the lungs would have been protected.
It's like Andrew Chapados is arguing that the car crash victim did not die from the car crash. She did not die from not wearing her seat belt. She died from the crushed skull sustained as her head went through the windshield. Technically correct, but beside the point.
It was no secret a pandemic was coming. They occur about every hundred years on average: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
In 2005 Bush predicted a pandemic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spcj6KUr4aA
In 2014 Obama predicted a pandemic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVAnaHxHbM
2008 - "the likelihood of a flu pandemic in the next 50 years approaches 100%" - a review of 'Global Catastrophes and Trends' - Vaclav Smil https://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/smil-bookreview-global-catastrophes20080000-predicting-the-future.pdf
2012 - "David Quammen speculates that there would indeed be a new disease, likely from the coronavirus family, coming out of a bat, and it would likely emerge in or around a wet market in China." - 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic' - https://thebulletin.org/2020/06/how-it-feels-to-predict-a-pandemic-interview-with-david-quammen-author-of-spillover/
2017 - "a dismal introduction on the threat of epidemics" 'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs' - Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
2019 - "We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support" WORLDWIDE THREAT ASSESSMENT of the US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf