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1918: How A Flu Virus Became The World's Deadliest Pandemic
By: Masked Man Date: February 4, 2025, 11:16 pm
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1918: How A Flu Virus Became The World's Deadliest Pandemic |
The Spanish Flu | Timeline
Link:
HTML https://youtu.be/bvLUApwPfLE
… I am thinking that By studying how societies dealt with the
Spanish flu of 1918 and other plagues in the past can teach us
about challenges we face today
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Re: 1918: How A Flu Virus Became The World's Deadliest Pandemic
By: Masked Man Date: February 4, 2025, 11:18 pm
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[quote author=Steve link=topic=1618.msg2263#msg2263
date=1727037137]
Perhaps one suggestion when discussing "The Spanish Flu" is to
not call it as such. My understanding of that pandemic is that
it was inaccurately named for political and social reasons. We
should be mindful to be dispassionate and accurate in the naming
of these ailments; Using "localized" names creates stigmas which
stifle global cooperation in dealing with pandemics.
For instance, the scientific community no longer calls "MPox" by
its original name (Monkeypox) because it conveyed an inaccurate
meaning that the ailment originated and/or spread through
monkeys when, in fact, it was first encountered in a monkey and
it likely originated in both a different species and in a
different area.
It is wise to look at our responses to prior pandemics of all
types and learn how the global community can respond more
efficiently for when such pandemics strike again.
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Re: 1918: How A Flu Virus Became The World's Deadliest Pandemic
By: Masked Man Date: February 4, 2025, 11:20 pm
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Yes indeed, good point Steve, ... If I am not mistaken the
"Spanish flu" was only termed so because Spain was the only
country to admit that the pandemic actually existed. Unless I am
mistaken other countries were busy in war and perhaps in such a
state of denial to admit there was a problem and that in reality
the flu might have originated from pigs or swine in America.
One of the historical facts that impresses me the most is the
footage of people carrying on celebrating war victories and such
meanwhile this microscopic entity killed more people than were
murdered in four wars combined making me think flu and diseases
even of today should be considered the true enemy. For some
reasons plagues and diseases always seem to corresponds during
wartime like one exasperates or inspires the other .. methinks
this should not be ignored and that this phenomena we call
disease and viruses should be treated more like an enemy.
One can’t help but wonder had our President not caught covid
three times the future and even his future might prove different
..
The documentary of 1918 shows soldiers carelessly spreading
disease continent to continent made me think of the way we tend
to repeat history like when both republican and democratic
parties hold superspreader events for the sake of their
elections in the very midst of pandemic or when the president
sat unmasked eating pizza with soldiers in 2022, also in midst
of pandemic:Yes indeed, good point Steve, ... If I am not
mistaken the "Spanish flu" was only termed so because Spain was
the only country to admit that the pandemic actually existed.
Unless I am mistaken other countries were busy in war and
perhaps in such a state of denial to admit there was a problem
and that in reality the flu might have originated from pigs or
swine in America.
One of the historical facts that impresses me the most is the
footage of people carrying on celebrating war victories and such
meanwhile this microscopic entity killed more people than were
murdered in four wars combined making me think flu and diseases
even of today should be considered the true enemy. For some
reasons plagues and diseases always seem to corresponds during
wartime like one exasperates or inspires the other .. methinks
this should not be ignored and that this phenomena we call
disease and viruses should be treated more like an enemy.
One can’t help but wonder had our President not caught covid
three times the future and even his future might prove different
..
The documentary of 1918 shows soldiers carelessly spreading
disease continent to continent made me think of the way we tend
to repeat history like when both republican and democratic
parties hold superspreader events for the sake of their
elections in the very midst of pandemic or when the president
sat unmasked eating pizza with soldiers in 2022, also in midst
of pandemic:
HTML https://youtu.be/vgYx6NeopCs
... methinks the multitude today have no clue as to how close
they really are to the edge of possible personal extinction
considering with every covid variant there remains a shroud of
mystery as to its ability or potential to wreak destruction...
I happen to think covid a much more serious disease than many
think because on first sight it may appear that covid isnt
killing people directly, however covid's long term repercussions
may be killing many people indirectly..not to mention overtime
each of covid's mutations may prove lethal eventually...
This appears to have occurred with the incorrectly termed
so-called 'Spanish flu' that probably originated in America as
"swine flu" in that it started out humbly enough not killing
anyone at first but over time winded up killing more people
than soldiers in a four wars combined did...
"The microscopic killer circled the entire globe in four months,
claiming the lives of more than 21 million people. The United
States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more
casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and
the Vietnam War combined.
"World War I ended in 1918, when Germany signed an armistice
agreement with the victorious Allies. The war had cost the lives
of more than 9 million combatants plus millions of civilians.
Meanwhile, an even more deadly threat emerged: the influenza
pandemic, which would take another 50 million lives worldwide".
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