Actually the Asian Flu version in ‘57-‘58 killed around 116,000 people in the U.S.
This, adjusted for today’s population would be about 217,000 deaths. And with no shutdowns, imagine that.
Actually the Asian Flu version in ‘57-‘58 killed around 116,000 people in the U.S.
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AND we were so ‘scared’ of it that in AUG of 1957 I was on a USN Ship heading to Japan/China/ etc etc etc and I don’t recall wearing a ‘stinking mask’ and our berthing area was 6 bunks high connected to poles and even the space between the next tier was such that today I couldn’t comfortably move about in.
Maybe the FLU was the reason we slept head to toe because ‘they’ claimed it was more sanitary smelling ones feet the the back of head....
And a mere 11 years earlier the ship was a participant in the Nuclear tests and we know those ships built during WWII were ‘filled’ with asbestos.
NOW they want me to lock myself in the attic.
Makes as much sense as the ‘hide under the desk’ drill in case of a nuclear attack...