Poll of the Day > Interesting article on what the 3rd yr of the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us

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https://yhoo.it/34jWX0I

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He predicted that the virus variant responsible for the surge would be milder and that those who had fallen ill the previous year would be immune. He was wrong

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By the winter of 1919-1920, Americans were weary of the limitations on daily life. Nearly all of the public health restrictions - such as mask-wearing, social distancing and the closure of schools and churches - had been lifted. A hasty return to public gatherings led to an increase in case numbers. Politicians either blamed people's carelessness for the re-emergence of the virus or downplayed the seriousness of it.

Sounds familiar.

The Spanish Flu was named as such because the Spanish news wasn't sugar coating their statistics so they were reported as higher than everywhere else, even though they were about average.

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So covid-19 is the American Flu

The main problem being, of course, is that those that need to be taught and listen to history are the very same that think it's all a conspiracy or whatever anyways.

Lokarin posted...

The Spanish Flu was named as such because the Spanish news wasn't sugar coating their statistics so they were reported as higher than everywhere else, even though they were about average.

It's not so much "sugar-coating it", more that pretty much everyone else was in the middle of a massive war at the time. So reporting accurate illness and casualty numbers would potentially weaken morale and give the enemy something to exploit. So everyone outright lied about it.

...except the Spanish. Because they were neutral in the war and didn't have a motive to lie. So their accurate numbers looked excessively large compared to everyone else's lies, so they sort of became the go-to to reference the flu under the assumption that they were suffering from it worse than anyone else.