Fund notes that a retired professor of medicine, Philip Snashall, noted in the British Medical Journal that his two-year-old daughter was the first known case of the Hong Kong flu in Europe. He wrote, “How things change. The stock market did not plummet, we were not besieged by the press, men in breathing apparatus did not invade my daughter’s play group.”
In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated
In 1968, Over 30,000 were killed in Vietnam
In 1968, Nixon won the Presidential Elections
And since, the Hong Kong flu lasted till 1969, Mankind ( via the USA ), landed its first man on the moon!
I do remember it.
And, strangely enough, not dead.
Goes to show how big this disinformation campaign is.
SOURCE:
https://www.biospace.com/article/the-1968-pandemic-strain-h3n2-persists-will-covid-19-/
For the Hong Kong Flu caused by the H3N2 Virus, Globally, about one million people died until the outbreak faded during the winter of 1969-70. In the U.S., the death toll was approximately 100,000 – three or four times the average annual death toll for flu since 2010, according to CDC figures. Most of those deaths were among people age 65 or older.
Like so many viruses implicated in 20th century pandemics, both the H3N2 virus and the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes COVID-19 exhibited cross-species transmission, appearing first in animals before jumping to humans and, sometimes, back to animals. A canine outbreak occurred in late 2017 in Ontario, Canada and persisted until October 2018.
H3N2 is considered one of the most troubling flu strains because, like COVID-19, it is highly contagious.
With the seasonal flus, like H3N2, antigenic drift is continual. The accumulated effects of antigenic drift, however, can result in viruses that are so different from the original virus that the immune system doesn’t recognize them. Whether it will play a role in COVID-19 is still unknown.
Because H3N2 was closely related to the 1957 pandemic, many people were immune. This kept the 1968 H3N2 flu epidemic relatively mild, especially when compared to the 1918 Spanish flu. For some reason, however – possibly antigenic drift – the second wave of the H3N2 flu that struck in 1969 was more deadly.
Differences in immunity are evident as the virus mutated during its global spread, as shown by the different patterns of infection and death.
I bet they were throwing live corpses into incinerators, too.
I do remember the HK flu!
This seems to be mostly a progressive rhetorical device. Conservatives think about what they write and say. They know when a comparison is valid or not, and when it is not they don't use it. However, the rhetorical device works on low-information voters. I've been trying my best to break the habit of limited my comparisons to something meaningful. Hyperbole works. It leads to invalid comparisons and persuasive arguments that work. Those that already agree with the point of view will still agree, but just not on the argument used.
We could never fight and win another WW today. Too many Americans are panicky and too many beta males. The root of a lot of it is selfishness.
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Today, the government has assumed responsibility for all aspects of the individual’s life - just do what you are told and they will keep you safe. Many, many Americans could not handle it if the government told them it was their own responsibility to avoid getting sick.
Support for collectivists comes largely from people who think even the small amount of obligation one still holds toward determining his or her own fate is too much.
My parents and aunt had it (all in their mid 20s and early 30s). My mom said it was horrible, they had to crawl they had no strength to walk.
“Before I answer your question, answer mine: should cars be banned for similar reasoning?”
Her Name is Olivia Nuzzi (born January 6, 1993), works for New York Magazine. Interesting write-up in Wikipedia
Now this article actually passes for journalism.
My mother had the Hong Kong flu. She was in her early 30s. She told me she was so sick she thought she would die and leave my father with three kids.
Indeed, and without the enforcement that penalizes violations we have read about, such as a drive-in parking lot service or having 16 people spread out in a church that seats 293[1].
I think time will tell that it is better in the long run to allow most to go outside and to work while practicing common-sense distancing. For the cost of these long-term extreme restrictions will end up being more costly to society and life than allowing greater freedom for most and a higher initial rate of infections followed by a faster decrease thru acquired immunity.
For as increased testing is showing, the vast majority who are infected with need no special care or have no symptoms, and far more are infected[2][3] than normal testing has shown, thus greatly reducing the fatality rate. And those who are in danger are overall the aged and or those with serious heath issues, as in the case in NYC[4].
And while Covid-19 is not the flu, yet the CDC estimates[5] that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, and between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths in America annually since 2010 (between 61,000[6] to 80,000[7] Americans died during the 2017-2018 season).
Yet the issue is why did we not see a comparative proportionate (to Covid-19) response to the Asian flu with its est. 500 million infections and 1–4 million deaths worldwide and 116,000 (according to the CDC[8] ) deaths in America, even when the population was about half what it is today? Besides the 100,000 deaths[9] in America from the Hong Kong flu that the article focus on?
Footnotes
2,000-3,000 babies are killed every day by abortionists.
Does that sound rare?
Where is the concern for life?
When will the Left’s war be over?
Can’t women LEARN to properly medicate their birf control?
Or practice social distancing???
Last week on MeTv i caught a re-run of the Beverly Hillbillies. It was from 69 or 70 I think. Swear to God this was the episode. Milburn Drysdsle was sick with the flu, and it was a normal strain. His wofe was ashamed of him because it was not an exotic flu like Hong Kong so she could brag to her friends that Milburn had an exotic strain? Granny was curing it with moonshine, but Ellies bear kept drinking it. Thats the difference between then and now.