Posted on 10/14/2014 6:54:58 PM PDT by John S Mosby
ST. LOUIS • On Oct. 5, 1918, the city health department issued this warning: “Avoid persons with colds.”
Dr. Max C. Starkloff, health commissioner, knew that wasn’t nearly enough. Two days later, with Mayor Henry Kiel’s strong backing, he issued an emergency order closing schools, theaters, pool halls, playgrounds and other public places.
The strategy was known as “social distancing,” and the motive was to fight the Spanish flu that was sweeping the world. The misnamed influenza would kill many more people than the ghastly meat-grinder known as the Great War.
The order was extreme, but it worked — St. Louis’ death rate was the lowest among major American cities.
On the day Starkloff and Kiel announced the order, two soldiers died of the virus at Jefferson Barracks, the likely origin of the local outbreak. Six more died there the next day, and eight civilians died at St. Louis City Hospital. In two days, the number of local cases doubled to 1,150 patients.
Link- http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/look-back/look-back-quarantine-during-spanish-flu-epidemic-saves-lives/article_aa4b3141-696f-5849-bf37-ad1fcacb7f3f.html
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Sorry- if you go to the article in order to read it they run you through a marketing question. Pardon me FReepers.
Liberian national elections were to be held today but were canceled because of Ebola.
Never let a crisis go to waste...
Wait for it - some Liberal somewhere will start squawking that quarantines are illegal.
We are currently quarantining, but we are far from shutting down the public spaces.
Doing what has proven to work for the good of the USA has never been one of his traits.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Not illegal but certainly of questionable Constitutionality (1st Amendment freedom of assembly).
“Liberian national elections were to be held today but were canceled because of Ebola.”
The saving grace is that it will effect the people in cities (dems) before those in fly over country.
Today Democrats would say a Spanish flu quarantine is another example of Republican anti-Hispanic bias
Stopping all flights out of African hot zones is a good start...
Polio. Yes there was until the vaccine.
It takes a real idiot or someone intent on being very destructive to not recognize that if you want to contain and treat something you restrict it to the smallest geographic area possible.
In water polo, it’s only a 20 second exclusion.
My daughter played horse polo in college.
Some of my academy mates played water polo.
When I was young we had canceled school because of polio.
I meant polio not polo
TB is another example.
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We all know that. But we jump on people more for spelling than opinion sometimes. Keeps things a little lighter.
I did see where other Freepers beat me time wise which makes me look like I plagerized but just type slower:)
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