[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!

[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.

[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