https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/

American Institute for Economic Research ^ | May 1, 2020 | Jeffrey Tucker

[absalom01]

n my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States, arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.

Lifespan in the US in those days was 70 whereas it is 78 today. Population was 200 million as compared with 328 million today. It was also a healthier population with low obesity. If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics, we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus. So in terms of lethality, it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so, though we shall have to wait to see.

“In 1968/69,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”

And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age.

[absalom01]

I was a little kid, but I remember that my parents expressed some concern about their elderly parents during the HK Flu.

Granted, it took two years for the HK flu to burn through the world and eventually 500,000, and the ChiCom Bioweapon has only taken a couple of months to kill almost 300,000 world wide, so yeah, it's more serious. But we don't need to make every single healthy person in California stay at home, either.

[rktman]

I was a tad busy during that time frame. Notice there wasn’t a lot of social distancing then either. By next fall, will this mutate into another seasonal malady to deal with?

[lightman]

My elementary school was closed for one week at height of spread mainly because they couldn’t find enough substitute teachers

[Nifster]

I had it. Wasn’t fun but being sick never is

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3841024/posts

[Terry L Smith]

In 1968 to 1969 school season in Stamford, CT, I attended high school with 2400 other students, amidst gang fights with all sorts of weapons and no stopping school, school arson- no stopping school, ran indoor track, rode to school on city buses, no stops!

[brookwood]

Interestingly, here is some evidence that Covid is worse than the Hong Kong flu, from comparison with Italy.
“The first season analyzed was the 1969-70 pandemic season. In Italy, as in other European countries,[8] the pandemic season was more destructive in the second season of circulation of influenza A (H3N2) virus (i.e., in 1969-70), 1 year after the pandemic strain was first introduced to Italy.[25,26,27] The pandemic season seems to have had a greater effect in Italy; excess mortality rates were estimated to be 38 (20,000 deaths) for P&I “
So the 1969-70 Hong Kong flu killed 20,000 in Italy but Covid19 has killed 31,000 already.
We Have A Winner!
The population of Italy in 1970 was about 53mm versus 60mm now so even adjusting for population growth Covid19 is more deadly. And, if Italy had not locked down, done millions of tests, etc, Covid19 would be worse.
see the fourth page of this article.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/556555_3

[Carl Vehse]

If the ChiCom virus were actually more serious than the various influenza viruses we’ve had over the past several decades, we should be sticking it to the ChiComs.

If the ChiCom virus were no more serious than the various influenza viruses we’ve had over the past several decades, we should be sticking it to the state governors and mayors who ripped the Constitutional rights away from U.S. citizens.

Take your pick... it’s one or the other.

[absalom01]

I think we should be sticking it to the Chicoms, big time.

The evidence is mounting that while the initial escape from the Wuhan lab was likely a mistake, Bejing’s subsequent decision to close Wuhan to the rest of China, but keep it open to the rest of the world was deliberate.

This is, IMHO, a deliberate biowarfare attack on the US by a hostile foreign power, and should be understood, and treated as such.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[daniel1212]

And you can go back 10 years further to te Asian flu which resulted in the death of 116,000 in America, at a time when the population was about half of what it is today. But where was the response comparative to COVID-19 in proportion to the threat it represented? More comparisons: http://www.peacebyjesus.net/influenza-pandemics.html

[Terry L Smith]

In my neck of the woods, as I wrote, there was no pandemic, nobody holding onto their butts, no masks, nothing!