A documentary worth watching: The 1918 (miss-named) Spanish Flu...Comments more than welcomed.

[TheGLOV]

 

[TheGLOV]

This is a good one too.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/influenza/

Thanks Ned for posting that.

All the best to you sir.

Discussion is good food.

 

[TheGLOV]

All of my grandparents lived through the 1918 pandemic: 2 in Tyrone and 2 in Pittsburgh. I can remember my grandmother relating stories about how her family dealt with the quarantine. She grew up on a dairy farm. My great grand father blocked the farm lane and posted "No Trespassing" signs. Since he was a dairyman, he delivered his milk, eggs and butter early in the morning and didn't have any contact with people. Since the farm was pretty much self sufficient they all made it through without any illness.

My wife's family all lived in Brooklyn NY and all of her grandparents lost siblings.

Wow!

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[BudatPSU]

Wow!

Thanks for sharing!!

My father’s mother died of that. She was a young woman with two young children. My uncle was six, my father was four years old at the time.

 

[GreggK]

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I am watching this down. Good god, it is a replay. Not as bad of course, but its a damn replay.

 

[TheGLOV]

I am watching this down. Good god, it is a replay. Not as bad of course, but its a damn replay.

Shocking to hear of perfectly healthy people dying in 12 hours or less.

How about those 6 people who died on a trolley ride including the conductor?

 

[CentexLion]

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Good podcast by the Smithsonian from a few years ago. Dr Hilleman, whom seems forgotten in history, yet, developed 40 vaccines, 9 still in use today. They have quite many podcasts that I'm liking. We need another Dr. Hilleman now!
https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/ep-18-killer-viruses-and-one-mans-mission-stop-them

If you have Amazon Prime, take a look at The Coming Pandemic, made in 2005. Centered in SE Asia/Thailand, about their readiness for the next big virus. Has quotes from Fauci as a FYI

Amazon product ASIN B084CT81RW
But the killer viruses seem to come in 50 year increments:
1918: Spanish Flu: worse virus (H1N1) in modern time. 17-100 million dead (50M being used). 500m infected (10% mortality rate). 1.5 billion population. 675k died in the USA. Sad thing is that it killed three age categories evenly: <4 years; 20-40 years; >65 years. Unlike Covid, which is centering >65. Normalized for the 5X population that we have now now, that would be 250 million dead today!!!!!

1968: Hong Kong Flu (H3N2). Killed 1 million people world wide and 100k in the USA. Could have been worse but some people had prior immunity, plus it happened right before the winter 4 week shut down. Again, affected young a lot as well as the very old

2019: Covid 19 ( SARS-CoV-2). 248K Deaths worldwide and almost 69k in USA (so far).

Also, I find this world clock interesting. You can see the population increase (births >> deaths) actively counting. Crazy numbers
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

 

[BudatPSU]

One of the things I have been thinking about is the changes in life that this virus is causing. For a young family in particular who loses one of their parents or has to deal with the results of a stroke or developing heart disease in a parent. What are the future costs that will have to be dealt with over the next two decades in that family. Social, psychological, economic and everything else that comes from living in a secure family.
My grandchildren are four and half years old and my greatest fear now is for them and my daughter and her husband. I hope and pray everyday that they are safe and healthy.