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.
Since the turn of the 21st century, roughly 2,000 people per year actually die of the flu. In a couple of years it's been nearly double that. In others, like 2001 and 2002, it's been less than 300. The 1980s and 90s had the same kind of numbers.