When did it start?
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From: ch...@wbmfg.com
To: <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] Fw: shelter in place question
Date: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 3:46 PM
Within 10 days, over 1,000 Philadelphians lay dead, with another
200,000 estimated ill, and the state government in Harrisburg ordered the
city’s
public amusements and gathering places closed down, a ban that shuttered
saloons, theaters, ice cream parlors and movie theaters. It was too little, too
late: As the body count continued to climb, the Catholic archbishop assigned
three thousand nuns and seminarians to staff makeshift hospitals and dig mass
graves. By March 1919, when the threat of influenza lifted, Philadelphia had
lost over 15,000 of its citizens.
From: ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:33 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] shelter in place question
Yeah, that old Woodrow Wilson was quite a fascist...
News from 102 years ago:
The failure of Philadelphia’s government to respond quickly and
forcefully should have alerted other elected officials to the crisis. In some
cases, it did, as in San Diego, where city officials took heed of the carnage
that had overrun eastern cities like Philadelphia, Boston and New York and
acted quickly to close churches, dance halls, gymnasiums, libraries, swimming
pools and all public meetings—except, of course, outside war bond drives.
Police enforced these measures aggressively. When the number of infected
citizens did not immediately drop, municipal officials worked with the Red
Cross to produce and distribute thousands of gauze masks, which many citizens
balked at wearing, despite the entreaties of public health officials. The San
Diego Union dismissed the very idea out of hand, observing that “modern
civilization has abolished the mask as part of the human wearing apparel …
only highwaymen, burglars, and hold-up men wear masks professionally.” Still,
the city’s early and active efforts contributed to smaller mortality numbers
than other municipalities.
Philadelphia had something 1000 dead the first week. City fathers
were assuring people this is nothing more than the regular flu...
Things have not changed much.
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From: Seth Mattinen
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:10 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] shelter in place question
On 3/22/20 1:02 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> Someone just asked Governor Pritzker during his daily press conference
> about letters like these and he said emphatically no, you do not need
> them, nobody in law enforcement is going to ask for papers.
>
But I was clearly told on facebook that only a fascist and/or socialist
police state would order a quarantine.
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