Posted on 07/19/2022 10:36:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
1957 flu pandemic, also called Asian flu pandemic of 1957 or Asian flu of 1957, outbreak of influenza that was first identified in February 1957 in East Asia and that subsequently spread to countries worldwide. The 1957 flu pandemic was the second major influenza pandemic to occur in the 20th century; it followed the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 and preceded the 1968 flu pandemic. The 1957 flu outbreak caused an estimated one million to two million deaths worldwide and is generally considered to have been the least severe of the three influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
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They had a beautiful happy wedding.
Fast forward to mid-March 2020, I was working at a hotel and a young couple are en route to Hawaii for their dream wedding. I wished them the best and hoped they would have their wedding.
Fauci and Birks created fear, what was Trump to do?
How many weddings and other gatherings did Fauci and Birks ruin.
I got the Asian flu and was in bed in October, 1957.
Listening to a Motorola am radio and reading science, political science and history. Age 11.
Sputnik had just been launched and they kept playing the beep, beep, beep recording and said “The Earth now has two moons and one was launched by the Soviets.”
BTTT
There was another in 67.
They killed all ages.
In 1968 I was 17 and about to graduate from Nederland High School. We were focused on finals when the outbreak became a horror story. One of my friends lost both of her parents in the same week. She had been an unexpected child and her parents were a little older
They both died while waiting in the hallway of our little hospital for a room. Even though so many more were taken with covid, in 1968 my eyes were opened to the preciousness of life and the fleeting moments of time we spend with our loved ones. Every single day is a gift from God.
'Cured', 'Replaced' - same difference...
I don’t know this as a scientific fact, but have read that when your immune system meets the flu for the first time, your body makes an antibody for that strain.
Then, every other time in your life you are exposed, your body makes the same antibody, no matter what strain is encountered. That’s why when a strain similar to your first exposure comes around, you don’t get it or only a mild case. When one that’s similar comes around, you are much more susceptible.
The 1957 and 1968 flu outbreaks were terrible. I think everybody in school in 1968 caught that one.
oops - ‘when NOT similar.
I was born in ‘57, so was 11 in ‘68; I may have gotten the flu that year... I remember being sick as a dog :0 .
Thanks for sharing that nostalgic vignette with us . I was 5 in 1957 , and remember distinctly standing with my parents in our back yard in Willimantic , CT one evening watching Sputnik pass over us . It was kind of scary , for a little kid , what with all the cold war anti-Russian news and commentary one heard on TV .
I was too young to notice the 1968 epidemic.
Covid dynamics are very different.
We’re more “taken” solely due to Covid?
And by the way, you post was touching and heartfelt. I appreciate it.
Have a blessed day,my friend.
Remember the drill for a nuclear attack? Now THAT was an exercise in futility. Children are precious but so easily conform to people in authority over them. Parents and grandparents should always risk whatever it requires of them to give the guidance they need for life.
As to this and other flu outbreaks until ...... “recently”, how many of such deaths were classified as “with flu”, instead of the science/medicine basis of “because of...”?
No, I do not wonder. It was only recently that science was perverted to allow this nonsense.
Gov’mt incentivized (sp?) hospitals with tens of thousands of $$ to falsely classify the cause of death. So, we get a “pandemic”, ruined economy, actual deaths from being walled in, and corrupt elections from now until the end of time.
I remember it! Sick as a dog! Mom treated it as any other winter cold. Stayed home for several days, then back to school.
I should add, mom took me to a local small town doctor who was very old, had his “office” in his house. His waiting room, which was his living room, was full of sick people.
Got some home made cough medicine.
He claimed he had never been sick a day in his life.
I think my mother got this flu, as I remember going to her bedside with things...with 3 young kids in the house it probably was no fun. (I was the oldest and too young to cook or do much but bring her water, etc.) And my Dad was working, and maybe even out of town for work at the time.
I was a college freshman in 1957. My dorm was full of cases, but I lucked out and never caught it.
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