Posted on 05/16/2020 3:02:55 PM PDT by grundle
I’m afraid you would have ended up shooting yourself in the back of the head—twice! Of Course if it turned the other way around this world would definitely been a better place.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda...
I got that flu in 1969 and I was SICK as a horse for TWO SOLID WEEKS.
I was taking a bunch of science classes and had to drop my Anatomy class. I had to go to a Wednesday NIGHT class at the university the next semester from 6-10 PM to make up for it.
We dealt with a cadaver. Ugh. Horrible. He had died from lung cancer and his lungs were black.
Hi.
In 1968 I had bought my first car, a 1960 Ford Fairlane. In August of 1969 I prepared to go to NY and Woodstock.
(From Ft. Lauderdale).
Two days before leaving, I got the flu (Hong Kong they say).
Kicked my butt.
5.56mm
1. I DETESTED the entire hippie movement, Woodstock, all of it. It made me sick.
1a Kids are fat today because they sit in front of a computer ALL DAY LONG. There is NO ONE telling them how CRUCIAL exercise is. Physical Education is a thing of the past. Too bad. The young fatsos are paying the price: heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure...and those are for the thirty-somethings.
2. Thank you for the common sense approach!
Canceled because of bad Acid?
Hardly.
The 60's produced sexually transmitted diseases the likes that hadn't been seen since the 14th century.
The LSD and such produced UNTOLD havoc on those who thought it was COOL to be out of one's mind.
Oh yeah, it was very cool. NOT.
It was STUPID.
Should they have cancelled breast milk? Really!?!?
So funny! “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!”
NO! Just quarantine them all after.
I was 18 when Woodstock happened. I worked at a city lake as life guard that summer. The park was packed daily. I don’t recall anyone concerned about a flu pandemic. I doubt I even knew of it.
The hysteria around Covid19 shows how society has changed. Trump shut down the economy to save lives. Shutdowns are a huge expression of the coercive power of government. It would never have crossed Nixon’s mind. His generation suffered from many infectious illnesses like TB. They took it in stride. Today, liberal neurotics who are threat adverse and mentally ill, demand that America sacrifice everything and cater to their over wrought fears.
Ha! You took the opportunity to ignore the question and express your disdain for the event.
Important you did that. Reflects well on you!
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58,000+ Americans would have agreed with that decision.
Anyone younger than 20, when The Berlin Wall came down, has not an iota of comprehension of that timeframe, and using any electronic historical reading can infuse the flavor, tempo, or mindset of 1969!!
“Cancelled? No.”
That was the question. And that was the answer.
The Hong Kong flu epidemic was long since over when Woodstock took place.
No then. No now.
This is no killer virus. No, you don’t have hours to live when you get it; it doesn’t melt your flesh;
It affects the respiratory system which is lousy but not deadly.
While it IS deadly for those with a PRIOR CONDITION - cancer, pneumonia, bad asthma, etc... we already keep sick folks away from those people because a simple common cold can push them over the edge.
We have never shut down the country because of the common cold.
We have survived (or not) EVERY flu, virus, whatever... every day for as long as you have been alive on this planet. Every day of your life, you are surrounded by countless numbers of sickness floating all around you.
Our government and their “experts” want us locked down and kept down by instilling fear upon us. Yet they themselves aren’t taking it seriously- they’re using this crisis as a chance to further their party, their careers, their power over us.
If they thought this was a serious health risk, they wouldn’t be playing all the political games that they are playing. They would TRULY be afraid - if only for their own families.
But they aren’t..
The Hong Kong flu caused fewer deaths than previous world wide flus, and for the U.S., the first wave was the worst. Data collection was at best monthly or quarterly, not daily, and diseminating information was slower than today. There was less ability to get current data and respond to it. Even with the internet, we know that the data we have on Covid-19 has a lot of error and is not as accurate as we would like. From Simonsen, The trend since the 1918 flu was gradually reducing death rates with spikes and smaller pandemics every few years. From table 2, the U.S. had significant excess deaths in 1957-1958 and 1962-1963, nearly half to double over the previous years, attributed to the H2N2 Hong Kong flu.
While the 1968 flu was bad, that was not uncommon with the flu over the previous 50 years.
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