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The Killer Pandemic of 1968
Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:18 pm
An interesting perspective.
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Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesn’t 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 Yasgur’s 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 farm’s neighbors was passed around and strangers used it as a communal source for bathing and drinking, she said.
And all of this happened during a global pandemic in which over one?million people died.
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Patti Mulhearn Lydon, 68, doesn’t 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 Yasgur’s 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 farm’s neighbors was passed around and strangers used it as a communal source for bathing and drinking, she said.
And all of this happened during a global pandemic in which over one?million people died.
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This post was edited on 5/16/20 at 2:19 pm
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Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:24 pm to SpotCheckBilly
I was a kid in 68 and I don't remember the flu pandemic.
I can remember we all went about our daily lives.
Of course there was alot of shite happening in 68.
I can remember we all went about our daily lives.
Of course there was alot of shite happening in 68.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:26 pm to L1C4
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Of course there was alot of shite happening in 68.
It was a busy year, but I don't remember much about it either. I was about 10. There was certainly no sheltering in place or mass hysteria about it.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:30 pm to L1C4
I remember the polio scare and was a child who received a vaccine from it.
That was a true pandemic.
Rabies has always been around or hydrophobia as it was called before my time.
People had to be put down if they caught it.
Imagine today if that was the case.
Ole yelled...
That was a true pandemic.
Rabies has always been around or hydrophobia as it was called before my time.
People had to be put down if they caught it.
Imagine today if that was the case.
Ole yelled...
Posted on 5/16/20 at 2:36 pm to SpotCheckBilly
The Hong Kong Flu in fall of '68 was a scary strain.
My sister had it and to this day, she still talks about how bad it was.
My sister had it and to this day, she still talks about how bad it was.
This post was edited on 5/16/20 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:02 pm to Porky
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The Hong Kong Flu in fall of '68 was a scary strain.
My sister had it and to this day, she still talks about how bad it was.
My Dad said it was the most miserable feeling he ever experienced.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:02 pm to Porky
I think 100k died in the United States from this virus over two years.
We will have 100k deaths shortly and it will have taken 4 months.
And this is with better supportive care than we had in 68.
Look, this isn't the end of the world. I'm with you. But that really was a bad flu.
This thing is something different and it's crazy that many people have it and never develop symptoms. A fraction of people get really sick and a fraction of those die.
But this can infect just about anyone whereas and can burn through a community rapidly.
There are dramatic differences. That all being said, the fear shown of it is amazing.
We went from flatten the curve which I could get behind to we can't let anyone for from a highly contagious potentially deadly virus. I'm not sure when we switched. My guess is somewhere after the media realized the United States was not going to become the next Italy.
After hearing the United States was going to become the next Italy for weeks, the media has to pivot to something else and it was preventing death.
We went from OMB to orange man hasn't conquered death in about a month. Every now and then we hear from someone saying that the peak death is going to be end of April to middle of May to end of May to mid June but few listen to these doomsayers.
Right now it is just orange man hasn't conquered a virus that has hurt the whole world.
We will have 100k deaths shortly and it will have taken 4 months.
And this is with better supportive care than we had in 68.
Look, this isn't the end of the world. I'm with you. But that really was a bad flu.
This thing is something different and it's crazy that many people have it and never develop symptoms. A fraction of people get really sick and a fraction of those die.
But this can infect just about anyone whereas and can burn through a community rapidly.
There are dramatic differences. That all being said, the fear shown of it is amazing.
We went from flatten the curve which I could get behind to we can't let anyone for from a highly contagious potentially deadly virus. I'm not sure when we switched. My guess is somewhere after the media realized the United States was not going to become the next Italy.
After hearing the United States was going to become the next Italy for weeks, the media has to pivot to something else and it was preventing death.
We went from OMB to orange man hasn't conquered death in about a month. Every now and then we hear from someone saying that the peak death is going to be end of April to middle of May to end of May to mid June but few listen to these doomsayers.
Right now it is just orange man hasn't conquered a virus that has hurt the whole world.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:08 pm to SpotCheckBilly
It was the summer between my junior and senior year. I have zero memory of it.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:24 pm to thetempleowl
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We will have 100k deaths shortly and it will have taken 4 months.
And this is with better supportive care than we had in 68.
There was a vaccine after the 1st outbreak of the 68 flu. Most deaths were in the 1st outbreak. We have 2 time the population today with 3 times the number of obese and 10 times the number over 75. Adjusted for the larger population with more at risk 100k in 68 is like 225k or more today.
The 1957 flu was worse. 80 per 100k died in the US. That would be around 300k today. There was also a vaccine developed after the 1st wave in 1957.
Effective treatments and vaccines will start to be available in the fall. Total covid deaths per 100k will end up being in line with these pandemics.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:38 pm to Shaun176
My Dad had it in December 68, it was real bad. But it was a seasonal flu that we had seen before, there was some residual immunity, and we knew more how to deal with it. This one is novel, no immunity going in, we’re still trying to figure it all out.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:48 pm to Pussykat
There was a lot going on in 1968-69. We had the moon trips/ landing, assassinations, Woodstock, Vietnam, civil rights, hippies, and I don’t remember much about the Hong Kong Flu. Is that now known as type A influenza?
Anyway... Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birks were young and starting their careers at that time. I’m not sure about models. There were no shutdowns. Life carried on. I was a freshman in college.
Anyway... Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birks were young and starting their careers at that time. I’m not sure about models. There were no shutdowns. Life carried on. I was a freshman in college.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 3:50 pm to George Dickel
Asked my parents about it a week or two ago. Neither remembered anything of it.
They got married in 68.
They got married in 68.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 4:13 pm to thetempleowl
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I think 100k died in the United States from this virus over two years. We will have 100k deaths shortly and it will have taken 4 months.
You need to adjust for population differences
Posted on 5/16/20 at 4:16 pm to BuckyCheese
I think one huge difference was.... no internet in ‘68-69. The media was liberal as hell back then but they didn’t have OMB to focus on. The HK Flu wasn’t politicized like the cornhole flu is. Also.... no 24/7 news and only 3 networks.
We have the biggest political scandal in history being uncovered and the MSM is pretty much ignoring it to help Biden get elected and protect BO....and...OMB must be defeated.
We have the biggest political scandal in history being uncovered and the MSM is pretty much ignoring it to help Biden get elected and protect BO....and...OMB must be defeated.
This post was edited on 5/16/20 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 5/16/20 at 4:17 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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And all of this happened during a global pandemic in which over one million people died.
Yes but the population back then was a much larger number than today. That is why the number of deaths were so much higher.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 4:35 pm to BuckyCheese
Was a senior in high school in ‘68. Don’t remember Hong Kong Flu being much at all. But I do recall the Asian Flu when I was about 7 and my mom being worried some about us kids.
Also, in ‘68 there was a small outbreak of viral meningitis and I caught that. Raging headaches and stiff neck for a few days.
Also, in ‘68 there was a small outbreak of viral meningitis and I caught that. Raging headaches and stiff neck for a few days.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 4:37 pm to George Dickel
Too busy living life to be scared
Posted on 5/16/20 at 5:16 pm to Porky
Hong Kong flu? How racist of you 
Posted on 5/16/20 at 5:29 pm to thetempleowl
The population was less dense and many of the folks dying from this disease today would have already been dead in 68 from natural causes. Obesity was not a problem in 68.
I don't know if the ventilators were even invented in 68. You can bet there were very few.
I don't know if the ventilators were even invented in 68. You can bet there were very few.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 5:30 pm to thetempleowl
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I think 100k died in the United States from this virus over two years.
We will have 100k deaths shortly and it will have taken 4 months.
Most of the US deaths occurred during the first wave.
The population is much larger now.
The H3N2 virus in 1968 was as deadly as COVID 19 around the world, and possibly more contagious, however there was some resistance to it in countries like the US that had been through the H2N2 outbreak in 1957.
This post was edited on 5/16/20 at 5:31 pm
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