I always wondered how it travelled so well given the limits of personal travel at the time. Something anywhere near as virulent today is petrifying. As a matter of fact, I think the level of petrifying for something like that is equal to the level of panic the media is shooting for with the current bug
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 9:40 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, it infected 500 million > people—about a quarter of the world's population at the time.[2] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubenbergerMorens2006-2> > The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million[3] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#cite_note-Spreeuwenberg-3> to > 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the > deadliest > epidemics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics> in human > history.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#cite_note-4>[5] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#cite_note-5> > > *From:* CBB - Jay Fuller > *Sent:* Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:54 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Fw: shelter in place question > > > When did it start? > > Sent from my smartphone > > ----- Reply message ----- > 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. > > -----Original Message----- > 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. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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