Similarities Between Corona Virus Disease COVID-19 Pandemic and the Spanish Flu of 1918
The coronavirus pandemic has well and truly got our attention immediately, and one word that keeps shooting up is "unprecedented," meaning that it's uncharted territory to all or any concerned, which is true.
However, my Dad was born in just equivalent circumstances, during the good Spanish flu pandemic which raged from 1918 to 1920. He was called a "flu baby" and was born premature, and that they thought he was born dead, therefore the overtaxed medical staff put him during a shoebox and put it to at least one side while they attended the mother and every one the opposite thousands of patients that they had. a while later a nurse noticed the baby occupation the shoebox, and my Dad's life was saved, which is why I'm ready to be here scripting this article.
But there's more! therein flu pandemic, people were told to remain reception, a bit like today. They were told to remain faraway from people, like today. there have been worldwide lockdowns, where nobody was allowed to travel out into the streets, and a few were shot for doing so. Meetings, work, churches, synagogues, mosques, sports - all were closed down. Those were the times before antibiotics had been discovered, and lots of of the health aids we've today were unavailable, so over 50 million people died worldwide, mostly from secondary causes that could are treated by modern medicine. I remember my parents, who were born in Durban, South Africa, often talking about it and the way terrible it had been.
But it passed. And this one will too. But it's imperative that we stand back from one another, and occupy a home, and wash our hands and face and practice very strict hygiene. Cities within the 1918 pandemic that did this for six weeks or more were those that fared the simplest and had only a few deaths. this is often the key: if the virus can't spread, it dies within days. It can only live by finding a replacement host. Deny it that option, and it'll die.
In 1920, once the virus had died out, the planet continued. it had been rough for a short time economically, but people managed. So don't lose hope, the sun will begin again. Times are hard now, but they will not last forever, and if we roll in the hay right and play our part, being responsible and thinking of others, it'll shorten the time that we all need to suffer.
Learning from the 1918 pandemic, it's obvious that we must be in no hurry to return out of lockdown. Some cities did that when the infection rate dropped, and that they had a resurgence of cases, so we must stay in lockdown until this enemy is dead.
So enjoy the spring - it's a symbol of the hope that's budding, that this tragic worldwide scourge will soon be but a memory, and that we will once more picnic within the sunshine with our family and friends, and luxuriate in our world!
But there's more! therein flu pandemic, people were told to remain reception, a bit like today. They were told to remain faraway from people, like today. there have been worldwide lockdowns, where nobody was allowed to travel out into the streets, and a few were shot for doing so. Meetings, work, churches, synagogues, mosques, sports - all were closed down. Those were the times before antibiotics had been discovered, and lots of of the health aids we've today were unavailable, so over 50 million people died worldwide, mostly from secondary causes that could are treated by modern medicine. I remember my parents, who were born in Durban, South Africa, often talking about it and the way terrible it had been.
But it passed. And this one will too. But it's imperative that we stand back from one another, and occupy a home, and wash our hands and face and practice very strict hygiene. Cities within the 1918 pandemic that did this for six weeks or more were those that fared the simplest and had only a few deaths. this is often the key: if the virus can't spread, it dies within days. It can only live by finding a replacement host. Deny it that option, and it'll die.
In 1920, once the virus had died out, the planet continued. it had been rough for a short time economically, but people managed. So don't lose hope, the sun will begin again. Times are hard now, but they will not last forever, and if we roll in the hay right and play our part, being responsible and thinking of others, it'll shorten the time that we all need to suffer.
Learning from the 1918 pandemic, it's obvious that we must be in no hurry to return out of lockdown. Some cities did that when the infection rate dropped, and that they had a resurgence of cases, so we must stay in lockdown until this enemy is dead.
So enjoy the spring - it's a symbol of the hope that's budding, that this tragic worldwide scourge will soon be but a memory, and that we will once more picnic within the sunshine with our family and friends, and luxuriate in our world!
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