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Poll: Do you think they should have canceled the 1969 Woodstock music festival because of the 1969 flu pandemic that killed more than 100,000 people in the U.S., and more than 1 million worldwide?
Wordpress ^ | May 16, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 05/16/2020 3:02:55 PM PDT by grundle

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1 posted on 05/16/2020 3:02:55 PM PDT by grundle
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I think this was the Round of HONG KONG flu. It seemed it wasn’t racist to call it that then. Maybe if they would have cancelled it, more Democrats would have died, and that might have been a good thing. Locking people up seems to increase the risk... and definitely mouth coverings add to the life of a virus. Like putting up a barbed wire fence thinking it will keep out the rats.


2 posted on 05/16/2020 3:05:42 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: grundle

Would have had to call off Vietnam too.


3 posted on 05/16/2020 3:08:06 PM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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There was another big difference between 1969 and now- not as many lawyers around. Back then, lawyers couldn't even advertise. Now, everybody is sue-happy and it makes people skittish about re-opening.
4 posted on 05/16/2020 3:10:26 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (THE)
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To: grundle

Canceled, no.

Carpet bombed, yes.


5 posted on 05/16/2020 3:11:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: grundle

No, no and no.


6 posted on 05/16/2020 3:11:01 PM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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That was before the internet and hysterical media needing some sort of outlet because ....


7 posted on 05/16/2020 3:11:55 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: mulligan

Maybe they should have cancelled the “60’s”?


8 posted on 05/16/2020 3:12:07 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: grundle

DUDE !!! ah what was the question


9 posted on 05/16/2020 3:13:33 PM PDT by butlerweave
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No, because we would have missed out on Bennie Hill’s Woodstick.


10 posted on 05/16/2020 3:13:45 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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I give up. Who cares what a bunch of draft-dodging, dope smoking hedonists did in 1969?

I had better things to do back then.


11 posted on 05/16/2020 3:13:49 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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I was there. Woodstock rocked! The only problem I had involved the young woman pictured below. She kept chasing after me. I avoided her. And I never did get her name. But I’ve often wondered...what would have happened had we become a couple?


12 posted on 05/16/2020 3:16:46 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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In that era, nothing short of calling out the National Guard would have sufficed to deter 400,000 kids eager for several days of music, drugs, and casual sex in a muddy field with virtually no food, shelter, sanitation, or medical services. Public health and wellness were not among their concerns.


13 posted on 05/16/2020 3:17:28 PM PDT by Rockingham
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Would they have cancelled Altamont?


14 posted on 05/16/2020 3:17:35 PM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: grundle

Thanks for that grundle. They should cancel it now and pre date the notice. I was slightly occupied at the time. But algore hadn’t invented the interweb at the time so there is that. :-)


15 posted on 05/16/2020 3:17:36 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: hardspunned

“ Would have had to call off Vietnam too.”
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Well, I had recently returned from Vietnam. However, don’t recall having the flu. But, that was a long, long, time ago. Maybe I was one of those asymptotic carriers or something. Was there even such a thing as a flu shot back then?


16 posted on 05/16/2020 3:17:47 PM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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I (73) have no recollection of said pandemic. I asked my wife (75), but she too knows nothing of it. I guess we were too busy working, and living our lives.


17 posted on 05/16/2020 3:18:56 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: Leaning Right

Oh man.


18 posted on 05/16/2020 3:23:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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They should have called it off but not because of the flu


19 posted on 05/16/2020 3:24:13 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: MuttTheHoople

I was fascinated with Woodstock. I have read books and reviewed as many pictures of the festival as I could. Last year some new, never seen ones came to light. You want to know the one stark difference between kids from 1959 and the kids today? Kids today are soft, fat, flabby fast food eating pre diabetic out of shape couch potatoes. It’s no wonder they get sick when anyone sneezes. Most of the attendees in 69 where thin and muscular with very low BMI numbers. They played outside. They worked outside. They loved being outside where the germs play.

I know it is pure “anecdotal” and the people telling us about the doom and death from Covid hate Anecdotal.... But sometime things are what they are and you don’t need a PHD in science to know who nature works.


20 posted on 05/16/2020 3:25:15 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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