Posted on 05/16/2020 9:05:10 AM PDT by knighthawk
Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesnt have rose-colored memories of attending Woodstock in August 1969. The rock festival, which took place over four days in Bethel, NY, mostly reminds her of being covered in mud and daydreaming about a hot shower.
She was a 17-year-old high-school student from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, when she made the trek to Max Yasgurs farm with her boyfriend Rod. For three nights, she shared an outdoor bedroom with 300,000 other rock fans from around the country, most of whom were probably not washing their hands for the length of Happy Birthday or at all.
There was no food or water, but one of our guys cut an apple into twenty-seven slices and we all shared it, she said. At some point, a garden hose from one of the farms neighbors was passed around and strangers used it as a communal source for bathing and drinking, she said.
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Grateful for the music at Woodstock. The best! Hendrix, Who, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills. Today’s music sucks.
Joe Cocker, Santana, Joan Baez, Creedence Clearwater!!!!
We had it all. The Beatles still had another year to go.
Joe Cocker is still great.
With a little help from my friends.
“Long and Winding Road” is a heckuva last song.
The question then is, where was the COVID-19 comparative response in 57-58 in proportion to its threat? Yes, the 116,000 deaths in America to the Asian flu was for the whole year, yet even if we reach about 200,000 deaths (we pray not) for COVID-19 then that type of equality would still mean that the extremely restrictive all-ages long-term response to COVID-19 simply has no precedent in American history, except to a degree with the far more deadly (550,000 to 675,000 Americans, or 0.66% of the population) 1918 flu.
And yet we read ,
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