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

[coaster123]

No it wasn’t. You took away the context and held forth. Don’t hide it under a bushel.

I’m still going to laugh because...witty. Ha!

[ScottfromNJ]

“1. I DETESTED the entire hippie movement, Woodstock, all of it. It made me sick.”

I personally know a few of them who attended Woodstock, now they’re pro Trump conservatives. Amazing how time can change people.

[cloudmountain]

I personally know a few of them who attended Woodstock, now they’re pro Trump conservatives. Amazing how time can change people.

Lol. So true.

It's my opinion that the GOP is where the Democrat Party was fifty years ago. Maybe I'm wrong.
I used to be a Democrat from a blue collar Democrat family. But, the Democrat Party changed...and so did I.

Those former hippies GREW UP. Many of us did.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Remember, in 1969 the USA population was about 202,000,000.

That means that more than 150,000 American deaths would have happened at an equivalent fatality rate

So, WHAT HAS CHANGED?

[Luke21]

Can we call off the JFK assassination while we are at it?

[higgmeister]

I must have been sixteen then.   I will never forget hearing about Woodstock for the first time.   I was at our Boy Scout meeting and we were in the smaller auditorium/common room of the Presbyterian Church for some reason.   We were never allowed in the Sanctuary.   I guess the main auditorium was in use by some other group.   Come to think of it, our Scout Master, Bob Killian, might have been talking to whoever had the main room tied up, because our meetings were a weekly scheduled event.   A bunch of us guys were killing time just talking about popular movies, songs and the like.   One of the guys mentioned this huge music festival up north that had just happened.   Of course Woodstock had already ended when we heard of it.

[Nateman]

Ayn Rand wrote an essay which compared the Apollo 11 landing with Woodstock . Both events happened within a month of each other. The essay is call Apollo and Dionysus

[sushiman]

I was there . Hitched with a friend from eastern CT . I was 17 . Told my parents we had a ride . Lied . Had tickets but ended up not needing them a it became a “ free “ concert .

[sushiman]

“I personally know a few of them who attended Woodstock, now they’re pro Trump conservatives “

I went for the music . Have always been conservative .

[daniel1212]

Thanks but I do not know why no one seems to be arguing that: Asian flu pandemic of 1957-1958 resulted in a estimated 116,000 deaths in America (followed by the Hong Kong flu with about est. 100,000 American deaths in 1968–69), when at 171,984,000, the population size in 57-58 was about half of what it is now (330,541,000, rounded figures). Meaning that not only was the infection death rate much higher than for COVID-19, but there would have to be about 200,000 COVID-19 est. deaths to be comparable to the Asian flu. Yet that would simply make it basically equal as concerns the numbers of deaths in proportion to population size, but to justify the CovidCaptivity, one would have to argue that the Asian flu should have necessitated a response like that to COVID-19. The Soviets would have favored that for sure.

The question then is, where was the response in 57-58 comparative to COVID-19 in proportion to its threat? Yes, the 116,000 deaths in America to the Asian flu was for the whole year, yet even if we reach about 200,000 deaths (we pray not) for COVID-19 then the extremely restrictive all-ages response to COVID-19 simply has no precedent in American history, except to a degree with the far more deadly (550,000 to 675,000 Americans, or 0.66% of the population) 1918 flu.

And yet we read ,

[Bommer]

Here to help. Using my clairvoyant abilities, I can tell you this

On the plus side, you would be rich and all your enemies would mysteriously die, more than all the JFK assassination witnesses combined!. Zero enemies!

On the down side, you would have to wake up to this every day

And thats why men have affairs!

[kempster]

I was in Korea in 1969 and I dont even remember hearing about it. Back then Korea was pretty backward. You would think that would have told us

[foreverfree]

Bump

[Labyrinthos]

Would have had to call off Vietnam too.

And the NY Mets would not have won the 1969 World Series.

[Rockingham]

Not long after Woodstock, I was in my freshman semester at Tulane in New Orleans. For Mardi Gras, the campus was over run with hippy freeloaders begging for meals, cash, drugs, and places to crash. They were a dirty, scurvy lot whose example was enough to set me adamantly against the craziness of the 60s.

[cloudmountain]

Not long after Woodstock, I was in my freshman semester at Tulane in New Orleans. For Mardi Gras, the campus was over run with hippy freeloaders begging for meals, cash, drugs, and places to crash. They were a dirty, scurvy lot whose example was enough to set me adamantly against the craziness of the 60s.

You betcha!
I remember seeing some guy, young, TOTALLY passed out on a public street corner. He had spittle coming out of his mouth and he stank of dirty clothes and no shower for a LONG time. THAT was the clincher for me.
Flower child? Disgusting bum, more like.

Lol. I don't hear much talk about THOSE days as the "good old days."

[cloudmountain]

And the NY Mets would not have won the 1969 World Series.

The AMAZING METS. I remember that.
I was an avid baseball fan. I don't go much anymore since I've gotten older. Maybe I'll see a game or two this year.

There is NOTHING in the world that tastes better than a hot dog at the ballgame...NOTHING!

[Rockingham]

Jack Kerouac, who provided much of the literary inspiration that led to the hippies, despised them as dirty Marxists. Indeed, appalled at the hippies, Kerouac became a staunch conservative, a National Review subscriber, and a friend of Bill Buckley.

[cloudmountain]

Jack Kerouac, who provided much of the literary inspiration that led to the hippies, despised them as dirty Marxists. Indeed, appalled at the hippies, Kerouac became a staunch conservative, a National Review subscriber, and a friend of Bill Buckley.

Lol. I didn't know that.
I LOVED William F.

The reporters were giving him a bad time once, for being an elitist. They asked him if he had ever ridden on the subway. He said: "Well everyone has a lacuna in his life."

HAHAHA! None of the reporters knew the meaning of a "lacuna" and they just STARED at him. I loved it!

Old blinky eyes; I miss him.

[cloudmountain]

Hillary should have had those silver fillings capped.