Let's start taking this serious. 'Spanish Flu' killed 50 million, 700,000 Americans

[DigitalDrifter]

Social distancing is a must !


This isn’t the first time a virus caused social panic. The Spanish flu did too


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There were warnings by politicians and doctors that the pandemic was coming. Mandatory quarantines followed, along with skepticism by a public that felt the threat was all hype.

Then, the deaths started.

This scenario is unfolding across Southern California, as the region bunkers down against coronavirus and reported cases continue to rise.

But the same sequence played out more than 100 years ago.
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This isn't the first time a virus caused social panic. The Spanish flu did too

 

[MarathonMike]

That was an entirely different kind of virus that was nearly the exact opposite of COVID-19. It attacked healthy people and killed within 24 hours of the first symptoms showing up.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

By the way, since the left goes absolutely nuts when Trump calls the virus, the "Chinese Virus" or "Wuhan Virus", will they be calling the LA Times, "racist' for referring to this is the "Spanish Flu" ?

I won't hold my breath.

 

[Missourian]

After Italy I think most folks are getting the message. The problem is the food shortage. People who have supplies need to stay home...not go buy more. Let the folks who don't have get some.

Grocery stores Wal-Mart and Amazon need to start selling a box of supplies that folks can just go pick up from their car or have it delivered to the curb. Once masks sanitizer and gloves are in supply...things will get easier. Folks won't be afraid to eat out. They can eat outside far from others.

This first month is going to be the worst...especially for those of us who must work.

 

[Likkmee]

World War One's role in the worst ever flu pandemic

 

[Pogo]

By the way, since the left goes absolutely nuts when Trump calls the virus, the "Chinese Virus" or "Wuhan Virus", will they be calling the LA Times, "racist' for referring to this is the "Spanish Flu" ?

I won't hold my breath.

Whelp, number one "Spanish" is not and has never been a race, so that's a non-starter. "Spanish" is a nationality (or a language). And in the case of so-called "'Spanish' Flu" entirely disingenuous. It didn't come from Spain at all, actually it most likely came from Kansas. The only reason it got called "Spanish" was that Spain was the only major affected country that reported its numbers honestly, while Britain, France, Germany and the US all LIED about it. Seems a flu pandemic was thought to be bad for the business of war, so this is a case of literally blaming the victim.

Food for comparison thought in other ways too. Fascist President Wilson bubbled up his own Ministry of Information ("Committee on Public Information") to sanitize the news (but not the populace) and put down reports about it. Wilson himself contracted the virus, and lied about it.

>> CPI staffers cranked out press releases, often republished word-for-word in newspapers around the country, that ginned up support for the war effort and sugarcoated the situation at home.

The consequences of this campaign would be an unknowable number of American lives. In Philadelphia, newspaper editors wary of disloyalty accusations avoided publishing doctors’ warnings about the public health risks of an upcoming parade. Within 48 hours of the event, thousands in the city fell sick with Spanish flu, but public officials continued to insist it was business as usual. “Bodies remained uncollected in homes for days,” researchers at the National Academy of Sciences write, “until eventually open trucks and even horse-drawn carts were sent down city streets and people were told to bring out the dead.”

Despite mounting death figures in Chicago, one local public health official stated he would do “nothing to interfere with the morale of the community.” A Wisconsin newspaper that factually reported on the danger posed by the flu was targeted for prosecution by an Army general under the terms of the Sedition Act. <<​

Yep, you could actually go to jail for criticizing the government, First Amendment or no First Amendment. That's why Eugene Debs had to run for President from prison. He was a political prisoner.


One of the millions of victims of that pandemic was Rump's own grandfather Frederick Trump, who perished in 1918 from it at the age of 49, which makes Rump's claim to be ignorant that people could die from the flu all the more bizarre.

 

[waltky]

An' Granny says, "An' dey wonder why...

... we don't want dem taco beaners...

... comin' over here!:

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I've always thought Likkme and Waltky was the same poster.

 

[healthmyths]

• 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 this pandemic.

How Many Adults and Children Die from the Flu Each Year?

So where was the MSM at that time?

Did most Americans know that this was going on in 1918?
So before the Internet, cable news, TV news.. the ONLY media at that time were newspapers.
This was one of the ONLY ways the general public found out besides the papers.

So who has been most responsible for causing millions now to lose their jobs?
Who has been responsible for the huge economic losses?
Who has been spreading "anecdotal" stories as if it happens all the time?
The fault is the MSM!
Ten Myths About the 1918 Flu Pandemic | History | Smithsonian Magazine

 

[Auld Phart]

No one knew.

First thing they did, was shut down the internet, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN news stations.

 

[anynameyouwish]

No one knew.

First thing they did, was shut down the internet, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN news stations.

then they ordered all space ships from mars back to the earth