Um... there were not 18 other Covids. The novel coronavirus is called COVID-19 because it showed up in the year 2019.
He also was not alive during the time of the great 1917-1919 pandemic of the “Spanish flu,” so has no personal experience with the fact that the country DID shut down and people were required to mask up during that time.
The above paragraph brings to mind exactly why so many people have fallen for misinformation and won’t believe the scientists who are actually studying the virus. We live in an age where infectious disease is mostly controlled. Although infectious diseases are still in the top ten list of causes of death, they are no longer responsible for over half the deaths that occur. This is because we developed vaccines, antibiotics, and antivirals that enable people to either avoid dangerous diseases or fight off those for which there are no vaccines. So, when a new disease comes along that is highly contagious and has a fairly high death rate, a minority of people do not believe it is serious because they never lived in an age when people were more likely to die of infectious disease than any other cause. They haven’t seen it, therefore it does not exist.
Dear Ted Nugent should have checked with a scientist before spouting off like that. He’s a rocker, not a scientist, and like any rocker, he should “Shut Up and Sing,” in the words of Ann Coulter.
thanks karen
btw i used to like ann, but omg she is so ridiculous.
I wonder what chers opinion is?
What areas of the country “shut down” and for how was the shut down communicated to rural areas and then enforced? A good share of the country didn’t even have electricity, a radio, or transportation other than horses in those days.
How many people were asked to “mask up” and for how long? I read that they continued the idiocy for six months until they realized it was doing no good, i.e.- the masked areas had about the same rate of infection as the unmasked areas, just like today.
How was the mask manufacturing and distribution infrastructure in those days? Highways, trucks, and manufacturing were far from what they are nowadays. So how did the tiny percentage of the population that actually wore masks obtain a reliable, ongoing supply of them?
Furthermore, guess what? The Spanish Flu from those days is still around; it’s one of the types the “flu shot” is geared toward. Should we all have been wearing masks for the past hundred years?
One additional item: Woodstock was held during the Hong Kong flu “pandemic”. Didn’t hear any yipping about masks back then.