Poll of the Day > Had you heard of the 1918 spanish flu before a few months ago?

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had you?

yeah I remember learning about it high school

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Pretty sure it was in the EULA.

Yeah, I like history and it was a massive deal.

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NeoSioType posted...

Pretty sure it was in the EULA.

eula?

yes

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Yeah it was a major plot point in Downton Abbey for one thing

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Yes

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Yes, I'd see reference to it while reading and watching stuff about World War 1 but it was probably only in the last 5 or so years that I'd read any significant amount about it specifically.

Yes of course, we learned about it in school.

whats your point? Are you expecting people here to not know about it, and you want to say that people in 100 years wont remember Covid-19 either? Because thats a horrible argument

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FrozenBananas posted...

whats your point? Are you expecting people here to not know about it, and you want to say that people in 100 years wont remember Covid-19 either? Because thats a horrible argumen

so hostile. maybe you should put tc on ignore

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Yeah I'd heard of it before, but not a lot about it.

FrozenBananas posted...

Yes of course, we learned about it in school.

That's interesting because I'm pretty sure we didn't cover it in school and I was pretty surprised the first time I came across a reference to it.

Yeah, I never learned about it in school. We just skipped over ww1 to go to ww2 mostly.

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rjsilverthorn posted...

That's interesting because I'm pretty sure we didn't cover it in school and I was pretty surprised the first time I came across a reference to it.

yeah i never

rjsilverthorn posted...

That's interesting because I'm pretty sure we didn't cover it in school and I was pretty surprised the first time I came across a reference to it.

really do you cover 8+ years of grade school history plus however many college history classes I took?

im just curious what you think the single word school means

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no

Yeah. History class. Jr. High.

And countless times while watching the History channel back when it used to actually be the History channel.


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Yup

I thought it was pretty common knowledge

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Yes, besides grade 7-12 history classes my dad was a big military history buff having served the entire Second WW under Patton. I spent my childhood learning more outside school with my dad (history and Natural Sciences). We watched a lot of historical documentaries together. My dad died July 13, 2001 so he missed 911 and this mess we're in now for which I'm glad. Either one would have hurt him a lot because he couldn't help out.

Sadly he also missed his beloved New England Patriots win their first Super Bowl. We had a really fun friendly rivalry between his Pats and my Miami Dolphins. All the crazy shit that happened that season convinced my mom and I his ghost was down there on the field helping them win lol. God how I miss that man.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

yeah I remember learning about it high school

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yes, but admittedly mostly or only by watching extra history on youtube

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Of course. My grandad was ten in 1918, he told me about it when I was a kid (he died about 25 years ago). It really wasn't that long ago in real terms; there are still people alive who remember it, albeit very few now.

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Trialia posted...

Of course. My grandad was ten in 1918, he told me about it when I was a kid (he died about 25 years ago). It really wasn't that long ago in real terms; there are still people alive who remember it, albeit very few now.

Dawn of man wasnt that long ago in the grand scheme of things also. But yes, your point does stand, as this
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19s-oldest-known-survivor-a-world-war-ii-veteran-who-also-survived-the-1918-flu

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I didn't.

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Never! It was real?

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Yes, learned about it in school along with the Bubonic Plague, the Hong Kong Flu, and many others.

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Maybe? I know large pandemics have happened in the past, so its quite possible we covered in school, but I don't remember for sure.

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Yes. but that because I like history and majored in it

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Yea but had largelt forgotton about it till recently. Oddly I decided to pick up and play vampyr recently where the Spanish flu is a major plot point.

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Yes because I paid attention in class.

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how dare you call it the "spanish flu", that's racist!!!
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I usually heard it referred to more as "Spanish Influenza", but yeah, I'd generally assume it was common knowledge for anyone who wasn't a complete idiot.

It's like saying "Hey, had you ever heard of the Black Plague before?"

Then again, I assume that schools today are completely inept and don't actually teach anything, and just give gold stars to everyone who manages to show up, so I suppose it's entirely possible that no one under the age of 25 or so has ever heard of it.
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Yeah, it comes up in family history and in is mentioned in various novels. I learned about it while not really studying on it if that makes sense.

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I remember hearing about this flu that killed more people than the entirety of World War I, and the Woodrow Wilson was sick with it while in the negotiations for the armistice/treaty in Paris.

Didn't know the name of it until just this recently.

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yes

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CedarPointcp posted...

had you?

Yes I had heard about it in school as well as "The Black Plague" which nearly wiped Europe off the map in the 14th century 1346-1353.

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thedeerzord posted...

I remember hearing about this flu that killed more people than the entirety of World War I, and the Woodrow Wilson was sick with it while in the negotiations for the armistice/treaty in Paris.

Didn't know the name of it until just this recently.

That flu was deadly indeed.

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Yeah these things usually get a footnote in the chapter. The black plague might have got something like a section of a chapter. Really history books or at least the ones ive had exposure to do a terrible job of relating events with their impact unless its something hugely relevant like the magna carta or the industrial revolution that they want you to have standardized knowledge on.

The history channel was a life saver back then for contextualizing all this and making it somewhat interesting. Otherwise the time line would have been a blur of who or what King Louis XVII.r02 was doing within the 500 years that there was a bunch of Louis bots.

I had read about events that caused the most deaths and this was up there so I found a lot of info for that.

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I heard about it in peaky blinders

Is "the Black Plague" what American schools tend to call the Black Death, then? I've never ever heard it called that before.

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I think it's a mixup of "The Bubonic Plague" and "The Black Death".

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Yes, but I couldn't tell you when I first heard of it.
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Years ago, but probably because of my interest in the First World War.

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yes but i cant remember where from.

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