[Gay State Conservative]

The Plague...the Spanish flu...we've been here before.If it's a choice between "killing" old folks and killing the world's true economic engine...WHICH IT IS...I say,"see ya on the other side old folks".

And yes,I'm far,far,*far* closer to the grave than to the cradle.I'm old enough to remember when phone numbers began with two letters!

[datura]

And switchboards....

[struggle]

>the Spanish flu

One interesting point about the Spanish Flu is that a Japanese doctor Gomibuchi treated his own family with diptheria serum. They almost instantly recovered. If only that had been tried in the Western world.

[Nothingburger]

Thanks for that post.

This is nothing like the plague, which was a virtual death sentence. I believe the 1918 flu had a death rate of 3 percent in the US, although much worse in some other parts of the globe, particularly isolated, backward communities.

If this resembles anything, it’s the 1957 Asian flu, still well within living memory. I was born that October, about the time the flue hit. At various times in my childhood, I recall my parents or other adults, mention in passing how bad the Asian flu had been.

But they said nothing about the entire country shutting down to cope with what was for the time an unusually bad seasonal flu. According to the Wikipedia entry, the US death toll was somewhere between 70,000 and 116,000. The population that year was about 178 million.

On a per capita basis, this crisis has a long way to go to match the 1957 epidemic.

[dp0622]

Not true AT ALL bro.

The black death wiped out 40 percent of the population!!

Everyone of EVERY age died. No treatment. Mortality rate near 100 percent.

This thing’s not even a cold compared to that disease and that time.

Spanish flu is closer and maybe without some modern treatments we would have 3 or 4x the number of deaths.

I bet that flu hit the old the hardest too. you’re right about that.

But the black death...yeesh...that’s in ebola territory

[IrishBrigade]

‘I’m old enough to remember when phone numbers began with two letters!’

I remember mine, almost; CR7-something, something...CR being CRestview...

[GOPJ]

I lived in a area years ago where phone numbers were given our sequentially... ours was ‘62’... The store we owned was the sixty-second phone number given out in that town... our home phone had four numbers...

[PA Engineer]

world's true economic engine

It died when China shutdown. The "economic engine" was built on a Potemkin globalist model.

[MikelTackNailer]

My bad - 1666 was 354 years ago, not 500. Looks like I qualify for a job at CNN or MSNBC.

I'm old enough to remember when phone numbers began with two letters!

And big fun with the X-Ray machine at the shoe store, I bet. Hang in there - you're posts are great.

It's 2020; we have modern, Western medicine, labs, scientists, researchers, hospitals, and medicines; We the (Quarantined) People are healthy.

Yet with all these tools we're still seeing the supposed experts look like idiots trying to get a handle. And it's the sick who should be quarentined, not the healthy. Good estimate is that 20% of the population has already had it and never knew it, thinking headaches and colds. It's the feeble bastards like myself who need to practice all that safety crap.

Every time the dead cart comes around on our street I make a note of it in my diary.

I follow Sam on twitter where bits of his diary are posted as if he’s tweeting each day and people react.

That's way cool - like Orson Wells' alien invasion and the old "And You Are There" series.

They undoubtedly under counted the dead. Did they bury live people?

Pretty doubtful as the bubonic plague had an almost 100% rate of fatality. hence Pepys writing his will. The fascinating "Safety Coffins" where a revived person could ring a bell via an attached cord didn't arrive until the 1790s.

I’m surprised Pepsy (pronounced Peeps), had time to keep a diary with all the fornicating he did.

He was the forerunner of the British S.A.S. motto: "Those Who Dare, Win."

And Truthoverpower, viruses shouldn't exist here as they're neither live or dead, just machine-like organisms that possess an astonishing ability to evolve, surmounting any obstacle in their way. They may be of unearthly origin. Fortunately most of them just use us for nourishment, replication and transmission without killing us outright.

[miserare]

I still remember my phone number from Brooklyn:

SO 8-8890

SO for South.