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1968 Flu Pandemic
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:12 pm
Any old timers here have any memory of this? 100k dead in US, 1 million dead world wide. Did the country experience the same level of panic and anxiety? Were there shut downs? Just curious about how it compared to Covid.
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:13 pm to SloaneRanger
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Did the country experience the same level of panic and anxiety? Were there shut downs?
There weren't 16 different news channels back then telling people to panic, so no.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:14 pm to SloaneRanger
Interesting this isn’t the flu
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:15 pm to SloaneRanger
Silent generation in its prime? Yeah they gave no fricks.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:15 pm to SloaneRanger
Based on my research, which consists of watching Mad Men, this wasn’t a huge deal.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:16 pm to SloaneRanger
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100k dead
Does this adjust for inflation?
Wasn’t 100,000 in the 60’s like 10 million now?
My god. 10 million people died back then.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:17 pm to TOKEN
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Interesting this isn’t the flu
For most affected, it's probably not as bad.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:17 pm to Bluefin
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Does this adjust for inflation?
Actually, we had a lot fewer people. So in a sense, yes.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:18 pm to Bluefin
I was in high school and have zero recollection of this
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:19 pm to TOKEN
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Interesting this isn’t the flu
Its not even a basic flu season I agree
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:19 pm to SloaneRanger
There's a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Mr. Drysdale has the flu. He thinks he's hallucinating when a monkey comes in a window but it's one of Ellie's critters. Granny kidnaps him from the city doctors and cures him with moonshine.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:21 pm to SloaneRanger
Before the flu vaccine and antivirals, every few years there was a flu with a mortality rate near covid, but it didn't spread quite as fast.
1957 was worse than 1968. There was also one in the 30s that was real bad.
Back then life expectancy in the US was still under 70. Mortality rates were higher for everything. Cars didn't have seatbelts. Doctors said it was healthy to smoke.
1957 was worse than 1968. There was also one in the 30s that was real bad.
Back then life expectancy in the US was still under 70. Mortality rates were higher for everything. Cars didn't have seatbelts. Doctors said it was healthy to smoke.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:21 pm to SloaneRanger
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Did the country experience the same level of panic and anxiety?
No, they were probably too busy wondering why we were allowing 17,000 to be killed in a pointless war.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 7:50 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:23 pm to TOKEN
Quit being a dipshit. Flu is the most valid comparison we have in modern times and it’s built into the covid models for fricks sake. No one is saying it’s the same thing but comparisons are valid and valuable.
You could compare it to Ebola or bubonic plague (far less similarities) and no one says anything but if you compare it to the most similar infection in modern times there are 30% of the population that just fricking cry
You could compare it to Ebola or bubonic plague (far less similarities) and no one says anything but if you compare it to the most similar infection in modern times there are 30% of the population that just fricking cry
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:24 pm to TOKEN
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Interesting this isn’t the flu
You're right...the WuFlu will kill fewer
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:32 pm to SloaneRanger
I have no memory of anybody ever using the word "pandemic" until Hong Kong Fluey
Pandemic is such a shitty word -- it doesn't flow rhythmically at all. WTF as wrong with epidemic?
Pandemic is such a shitty word -- it doesn't flow rhythmically at all. WTF as wrong with epidemic?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:34 pm to Jim Rockford
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Granny kidnaps him from the city doctors and cures him with moonshine
Granny doing work!
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:39 pm to Kafka
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Pandemic is such a shitty word -- it doesn't flow rhythmically at all. WTF as wrong with epidemic?
A lifetime ago, or rather about 4 weeks ago on TV, the talking heads were discussing whether to call the coronavirus thing an "epidemic" or "pandemic".
They didn't seem like to come to a good consensus, but I think they thought "pandemic" sounded worse, so they tended to like that over "epidemic"
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:40 pm to HeadSlash
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Granny doing work
As a bonus she probably pruned his tongue
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:41 pm to SloaneRanger
The Hong King Flu had a CFR of less than .5. It’s transmission rate was also lower. Covid-19 has a mortality rate around 3%. Coronavirus also highly contagious in comparison. Imagine if no measures were taken and where we would be with a more contagious and more dealt disease.
Your argument is without merit.
You do understand that statistics matter, right?
And they are two different types of viruses? You can comprehend that right?
Your argument is without merit.
You do understand that statistics matter, right?
And they are two different types of viruses? You can comprehend that right?
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