Please watch the final three episodes on the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic as a comparison to what is happening today. Please share your thoughts/opinons/what you learned about the videos below. Thanks!
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It's eerily scary how similar the reaction to the Spanish Flu is to COVID-19. The way that there is a lack of space and resources during the Spanish Flu is what is happening today in regards to the coronavirus. A good thing about today is that we are not in a war, so we are able to go into a full quarantine if needed, unlike during the Spanish Flu. It's interesting how the president reacted to the Spanish Flu back then and what our president is doing now in regards to sometimes not placing to necessary precautions to keep people safe in place because of economic or diplomatic reasons. It's also new to me that there were some places that ended up basically using the Flu as an excuse to be racist and to create discriminatory laws. That seems awfully similar to the xenophobia that is sometimes happening today because of COVID-19's origin place. Just like COVID-19, the Spanish Flu especially attacks and impacts people with weak immune systems. I hope that the devastation that COVID-19 causes is nowhere near as severe as the devastation from the Spanish Flu.
Thanks for your response Ellie. You do a great job of comparing what happened back then to today in your summary which is what I wanted to see. Great job!
I think that it's crazy that there were 3 major waves of the flu. I also can't believe that the flu took at minimum 50 million people's lives. I am really hopeful that this is the only wave of the coronavirus. If there are more waves they could be a lot more deadly. Thankfully we have been able to learn from the past and are taking much more preventative measures against the coronavirus. I think that it could be a lot more deadly if we didn't learn from our mistakes in the past such as not quarantining and gathering in large groups.
Thanks for your comments Macy. It's hard to imagine todaythat 59 million people died. Can you imagine if that happened today? But as you said, we do have better medicine and techniques today. However, in some ways, they were striter back then. In some cities, it was illegal to not wear a mask. Read the story here.