Government Recommendations for the Spanish Flu (1918)

13 Comments on Government Recommendations for the Spanish Flu (1918)

1. A little common sense

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2. The grippe. Old timey names for common ailments were great.

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3. It shows how far we have come to insanity from a time of simple, rational approaches to pandemics. Running around like a chicken with your head cut off does you no good.

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4. Division of Sanitation?
   Hell, this was good enough advice from a likely small division of government.
   Of course it has multiplied a thousand fold in 100 years and can’t even do a damn thing right.

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5. Only took 103 years for the world to lose it’s ever lovin’ mind.

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6. The Government treated people with more respect back when you could trust that your education system was not creating imbeciles on a mass scale.

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7. “Spanish Influenza” came from SPAIN!
   Just sayin’.

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8. First comment of the day, ‘You’re posting to quickly’ again.

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9. It would be interesting to see whether they tracked variants. I have been saying for months that covid would last about 2 years, then go away. Omicron appears to be setting up as a major factor for the grand finale, a highly transmissible but very weak virus that spreads immunity.
   But how will the Left control the elections next year then???

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10. Is it coincidental that the Communist takeover of Russia in 1917 and America’s
    entry in WW1 in 1917 after Democrat assurances to keep US out of the war occurred about the time of the Spanish Flu Pandemic?

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11. England had some sort of immunization – CS Lewis referred to it in one of his letters.
    Though it certainly wasn’t mandatory.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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12. They had enough sense in those days to NOT fire all their health care workers who didn’t take two or three grains of calomel for the grippe.

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13. Back when a pandemic was a pandemic and both old & young, strong and weak ran the high chance of being killed by the flu.

    If we got hit with such a flu today it would result in total societal collapse.