The 'Spanish' flu outbreak of 1918 is playing out just like 'reopen' protesters are in 2020: report

[SheltieLover]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/the-spanish-flu-outbreak-of-1918-is-playing-out-just-like-reopen-protesters-are-in-2020/
The ‘Spanish’ flu outbreak of 1918 is playing out just like ‘reopen’ protesters are in 2020: report
Published 1 min ago on April 19, 2020By Sarah K. Burris

National Public Radio reporter Tim Mak wrote an extensive Twitter thread after researching the way the flu outbreak spread throughout the United States in the early 20th century.

It began in San Francisco in Sept. 2018, he explained, and people were successfully wearing masks and cases were dropping. By November, public health officials said the city could reopen.

“Residents rushed to entertainment venues after having been denied this communal joy for months. The mayor himself was fined by his own police chief after going to a show without a mask,” said Mak.

More at link.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. 2018 should be 1918

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. NO. There is NOT more at the link. There is another of your threads on an unrelated topic

Please don't do that.

[SheltieLover]

3. Link fixed.

Apologies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. You didn't fix the history date. Oh wait. RawStory was that careless. . . . nt

[FreeState]

10. No it was in the original tweet n/t

[DBoon]

5. Here is the original twitter thread

Link to tweet

Sources used in twitter thread:

The University of Michigan's Influenza Encyclopedia
The San Francisco Chronicle’s archives
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby
American Pandemic by Nancy Bristow

Twitter is a very ugly way to tell a story like this. It is like writing a novel on postcards. Maybe that ancient 2000's invention called "The Blog" should have been used instead.

[SheltieLover]

6. Thank you, Dboon.

[BigmanPigman]

7. The same thing happened in Phila.

Link to tweet

?s=20

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213312168

[Cha]

13. Thank you for that part of history, BP

[Cha]

8. This is personal for me.. my paternal grandfather

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passed from the "Spanish" flu.. EDIT.. I mean in 1919. He worked in the train station in a small Colorado town.

Bookmarked for reading later.. I have to go out for supplies now.

Mahalo, Sheltie

[SheltieLover]

9. Be safe, Cha!

Mahalo, Cha!

Sorry to hear about your grandpa. 😢

[Cha]

12. Aloha Sheltie.. I had written 2019 but obviously

meant 1919.. corrected it.

Thank you! I never knew much about how it happened or anything until all this news is coming out about it now because it was such a deadly pandemic too.

[hunter]

11. I block rawstory, but here's an article in the San Francisco Chronicle:

San Francisco’s 1918 Spanish flu debacle: a crucial lesson for the coronavirus era

The first great San Francisco pandemic came to a close with a citywide celebration, at noon on Nov. 21, 1918.

A whistle blew, church bells rang, and citizens who had endured sickness, death and many hard days of sacrifice to battle the Spanish influenza tore off their mandatory masks and threw them into the streets.

“After four weeks of muzzled misery, San Francisco unmasked at noon yesterday and ventured to draw its breath,” The Chronicle reported the next day, describing the scene. “Despite the published prayers of the Health Department for conservation of gauze, the sidewalks and runnels were strewn with the relics of a torturous month.”

Except that wasn’t the end. The flu roared back in January, nearly doubling the death toll, and taking advantage of a city that had completely let down its guard. The Bay Area, up until then a national pandemic success story, became a cautionary tale.

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-1918-Spanish-flu-debacle-A-15191518.php

[Initech]

14. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[Cha]

15. And, history repeats itself bc many will never

ever learn from it!