Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Because the country was still run by the same people who defeated the Nazis and rose from the Great Depression. These were strong, independent thinking men. Not the candy assed, female led, halfa ***, Socialists of today.
If you got a cold you took an aspirin, blew your GD nose, and went to work.

...and came home to a dinner of red meat and potatoes after smoking two packs of Camel non-filters, drinking a pack of Schlitz, dying of a heart attack at 49 while your hippy children were OD-ing on drugs and your wife had just gotten her hair frosted at the beauty parlor with Suspicious Minds playing on the radio and Huntley and Brinkley on the TV...

I guess you are remembering your childhood but that was not the childhood memories of everyone

That you and others on the right keep attempting to propagate this ridiculous sophistry serves only to illustrate just how ridiculous you and others on the right truly are.

 

[Desperado]

Because the country was still run by the same people who defeated the Nazis and rose from the Great Depression. These were strong, independent thinking men. Not the candy assed, female led, halfa ***, Socialists of today.
If you got a cold you took an aspirin, blew your GD nose, and went to work.

...and came home to a dinner of red meat and potatoes after smoking two packs of Camel non-filters, drinking a pack of Schlitz, dying of a heart attack at 49 while your hippy children were OD-ing on drugs and your wife had just gotten her hair frosted at the beauty parlor with Suspicious Minds playing on the radio and Huntley and Brinkley on the TV...

I guess you are remembering your childhood but that was not the childhood memories of everyone

That you and others on the right keep attempting to propagate this ridiculous sophistry serves only to illustrate just how ridiculous you and others on the right truly are.

Go back to cowering under your bed and STFU

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

 

[Desperado]

Because the country was still run by the same people who defeated the Nazis and rose from the Great Depression. These were strong, independent thinking men. Not the candy assed, female led, halfa ***, Socialists of today.
If you got a cold you took an aspirin, blew your GD nose, and went to work.

...and came home to a dinner of red meat and potatoes after smoking two packs of Camel non-filters, drinking a pack of Schlitz, dying of a heart attack at 49 while your hippy children were OD-ing on drugs and your wife had just gotten her hair frosted at the beauty parlor with Suspicious Minds playing on the radio and Huntley and Brinkley on the TV...

I guess you are remembering your childhood but that was not the childhood memories of everyone

That’s the way it was in most neighborhoods.

maybe in NYC but not every else

 

[Flopper]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

There is a long list but his most egregious action was to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic and ignore the warnings, assigning Pence the major role in dealing with the issue in January and February. His message was loud clear, don't worry it's all under control. And his people didn't worry. The CDC was not working 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to prepare. It was business as usual. The president wasn't concerned that the stockpile of PPE equipment and ventilators was dangerously low, development of test kits was way behind other countries, reagents needed for testing were being bought up by other countries. Trump wasn't concerned so his people weren't concerned, until the first week of March when it finally dawned on him the country was some deep shit and his administration was totally unprepared to handle it.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

I think the public has responded very well and done everything asked of them, being compliant to the point of absurdity in some cases.
Now people are saying it's time to come out of our homes and start to live life again and I think
many states are breaking that way. It's high time we got going again.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

I think the public has responded very well and done everything asked of them, being compliant to the point of absurdity in some cases.
Now people are saying it's time to come out of our homes and start to live life again and I think
many states are breaking that way. It's high time we got going again.

Responded well to what?

 

[Desperado]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

You call being calm and rational is claiming the virus is just the flu, a democrat hoax when it's been declared a pandemic and infection is in over 20 countries including the US. I call it insanity.

Again stop with the claiming the virus was a hoax, no one said that the media hype was called and is a hoax

 

[Syriusly]

The article said it best:
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”
also that generation was not a bunch of panty waisted snowflakes afraid of their own shadow.

Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969

Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesn’t have rose-colored memories of attending Woodstock in August 1969. The rock festival, which took place over four days in Bethel, NY, mostly reminds her of being cov…

nypost.com

H3N2 killed 100,000 Americans in 2 years.

Coronavirus has killed 87,000 Americans in 3 months.

 

[Desperado]

The article said it best:
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”
also that generation was not a bunch of panty waisted snowflakes afraid of their own shadow.

Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969

Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesn’t have rose-colored memories of attending Woodstock in August 1969. The rock festival, which took place over four days in Bethel, NY, mostly reminds her of being cov…

nypost.com

H3N2 killed 100,000 Americans in 2 years.

Coronavirus has killed 87,000 Americans in 3 months.

Well the Governor of NY at the time did not stick covid patients into ill equipped nursery homes among other differences

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

There is a long list but his most egregious action was to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic and ignore the warnings, assigning Pence the major role in dealing with the issue in January and February. His message was loud clear, don't worry it's all under control. And his people didn't worry. The CDC was not working 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to prepare. It was business as usual. The president wasn't concerned that the stockpile of PPE equipment and ventilators was dangerously low, development of test kits was way behind other countries, reagents needed for testing were being bought up by other countries. Trump wasn't concerned so his people weren't concerned, until the first week of March when it finally dawned on him the country was some deep shit and his administration was totally unprepared to handle it.

Trump banned travel from China at the end of January. Shortly after Fauci said the US was not at risk.
Democrats are dishonest.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

There is a long list but his most egregious action was to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic and ignore the warnings, assigning Pence the major role in dealing with the issue in January and February. His message was loud clear, don't worry it's all under control. And his people didn't worry. The CDC was not working 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to prepare. It was business as usual. The president wasn't concerned that the stockpile of PPE equipment and ventilators was dangerously low, development of test kits was way behind other countries, reagents needed for testing were being bought up by other countries. Trump wasn't concerned so his people weren't concerned, until the first week of March when it finally dawned on him the country was some deep shit and his administration was totally unprepared to handle it.

Maybe Trump was guilty of trusting China and the WHO in the early days when they both said
the virus was not capable of spreading from human to human.
Maybe Anthony Fauci was confiding in Trump that the WHO had things under control as he was, and is, a big
supporter of the World Health Organization.

I'll read the book about the matter when it comes out and someone has done thorough research on the subject they are aren't just regurgitating memes and myths from anti Trump sources.
In other words I will wait for an authoritative source before I pass judgement , something you might try.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Responded well to what?

Responded well to what they were asked to follow, i.e. Fauci and his social distancing mantra. Get it?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Responded well to what?

Responded well to what they were asked to follow, i.e. Fauci and his social distancing mantra.

Should you wear a mask or face covering when you go out or not?

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Should you wear a mask or face covering when you go out or not?

Why are you asking me? My governor said masks were not mandatory.
Ask her. What would you like me to say?

 

[my2¢]

It went pretty normal in 2009 as well. Can anybody name the person in the administration that the pandemic playbook gives responsibility to for public safety? An hour ago over dinner I asked my wife if she knew who such-and-such was and she hadn't a clue. Little wonder why the deep state bureaucrats have been so influential.

 

[meaner gene]

The article said it best:
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”
also that generation was not a bunch of panty waisted snowflakes afraid of their own shadow.

Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969

Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesn’t have rose-colored memories of attending Woodstock in August 1969. The rock festival, which took place over four days in Bethel, NY, mostly reminds her of being cov…

nypost.com

Maybe if you consulted Wikipedia on the "hong kong flu" you would know what the numbers represent.

From its beginning in July 1968 until the outbreak faded during the winter of 1969-70.[15] The CDC estimated that about 100,000 people died in the U.S;

That's total deaths over the span of around 20 months.

We will reach that number in 4 months.

 

[Flopper]

Who is the leader of the United States?

If the nation didn’t approach this virus with calm rationality, what did our leader get wrong?

Could this make any less sense? It's incoherent.

Really? Let me put it another way.

The OP is complaining and saying that we have been less than calm and rational in dealing with this virus.

President Trump is our leader. If we have not handled this virus well as a nation, it is on him. What is it that he did or didn’t do which has resulted in the American people responding so poorly?

Get it?

Got any thoughts?

I think the public has responded very well and done everything asked of them, being compliant to the point of absurdity in some cases.
Now people are saying it's time to come out of our homes and start to live life again and I think
many states are breaking that way. It's high time we got going again.

How compliant, how well people have obeyed the rules, and how much they want to return to their old life, is irrelevant to the future spread of the virus. When the virus really started to spread in the beginning of March there was only 75 cases and 1 death in the whole country. It hardly existed in most places. Today it's everywhere, in every city and every town. The only thing standing between you and the virus is distance and physical barriers such as masks. Remove those things and it will be March all over again but a lot worse because there's so much more of virus around today.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Should you wear a mask or face covering when you go out or not?

Why are you asking me? My governor said masks were not mandatory.
Ask her. What would you like me to say?

A leader would be able to clear that up for you.