Basically, the placement of your crew weight is used to control the angle of pitch (fore and aft) and the angle of the heel of the boat. This is a balancing of static forces. The more skilled crews also use it to help propel the boat. This is a balancing of dynamic forces. Let us consider the static forces first.
Don't Believe Everything You Read About Flu Deaths. Flu results in about 250,000 to 500,000 yearly deaths worldwide, Wikipedia tells us. The typical estimate is 36,000 [deaths] a year in the United States, reports NBC, citing the Centers for Disease Control. Somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 Canadians a year die of influenza and its related complications, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Globe and Mail says, adding that Those numbers are controversial because they are estimates.
The increased deaths aren't necessarily because the strain of flu virus is stronger, but rather because so many more people get sick during a pandemic, such as: 1  1889 Russian Flu Pandemic: About 1 million flu deaths. 2  1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: Over 40 to 50 million flu deaths, including about 675,000 in the United States. The flu infected over half of the world's population by the end of the pandemic. 1957 Asian Flu Pandemic: Over 1 million flu deaths, including about 69,800 in the United States