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Cousin Dupree

(1,866 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:58 PM Mar 2020

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Anyone watching American Experience on PBS? About the influenza epidemic of 1918.

History repeating itself to the T. If you get a chance, watch it. Eerily similar to what’s going on now

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Anyone watching American Experience on PBS? About the influenza epidemic of 1918. (Original Post) Cousin Dupree Mar 2020 OP

Eerily similar is right Zorro Mar 2020 #1

Nope. I can look out the window and watch it live. n/t zackymilly Mar 2020 #2

My city has Polio as tonights subject, not the Spanish Flu. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #3

Our had Spanish Flu at 8:00 and Polio at 9:00. A real horror double feature. Cousin Dupree Mar 2020 #4

I guess I will have to watch it on my tablet... BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #7

We watched is a few weeks ago mcar Mar 2020 #5

Yes, the polio episode! And I just about lost it when I saw Americans banding together... SMC22307 Mar 2020 #6

Thanks, I'll check that out. cwydro Mar 2020 #8

The final minutes are the most important part of the show misanthrope Mar 2020 #9

I just read in short article about the influenza of 1918 and how the army handled SharonClark Mar 2020 #10

Zorro

(15,680 posts)

1. Eerily similar is right

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:00 PM

Mar 2020

Sobering episode.

zackymilly

(2,375 posts)

2. Nope. I can look out the window and watch it live. n/t

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:00 PM

Mar 2020

BigmanPigman

(50,862 posts)

3. My city has Polio as tonights subject, not the Spanish Flu.

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:23 PM

Mar 2020

Cousin Dupree

(1,866 posts)

4. Our had Spanish Flu at 8:00 and Polio at 9:00. A real horror double feature.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:26 PM

Mar 2020

BigmanPigman

(50,862 posts)

7. I guess I will have to watch it on my tablet...

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:30 PM

Mar 2020

oh joy. Before the Polio episode they have a show about Ben Franllin's bones.

mcar

(41,710 posts)

5. We watched is a few weeks ago

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:27 PM

Mar 2020

Yes, eerie similarities.

SMC22307

(8,085 posts)

6. Yes, the polio episode! And I just about lost it when I saw Americans banding together...

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:29 PM

Mar 2020

to mail in dimes to the White House. (Guess I've been spending too much time on social media lately and it *ain't* healthy.)

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

8. Thanks, I'll check that out.

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:32 PM

Mar 2020

Earlier, I was watching Great Courses’ lectures on the The Black Death. Also amazingly similar.

misanthrope

(7,332 posts)

9. The final minutes are the most important part of the show

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 08:40 PM

Mar 2020

Interviewees openly muse on why Americans seemed to have collectively forgotten all about the 1918 pandemic. Why didn't it affect change more deeply?

The same thing can be said about the 1957 Asian flu (70,000 American fatalities) and the 1968 Hong Kong flu (100,000 American fatalities) which were both within the lifetimes of many still alive today. Those didn't seem to change anything either, certainly not in some of our leaders who lived through both of them.

I keep seeing/hearing people say the COVID-19 will bring about transformative change to society. I'll believe it when I see it because evidence says otherwise.

SharonClark

(9,955 posts)

10. I just read in short article about the influenza of 1918 and how the army handled

Reply to Cousin Dupree (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:37 PM

Mar 2020

the situation at Camp Dodge in Iowa. It was a horror story with unembalmed bodied being sent back to families and some bodies were rotting and bloated when the families received them.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2020/03/03/influenza-outbreak-700-soldiers-died-1918-iowa-camp-dodge-johnston-army-base-national-guard-flu/2843939001/

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