[PLUG-TALK] 1918 Re: Move to Strike
Larry Brigman
larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 03:49:17 UTC 2020
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 8:01 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:06:13AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > I move to strike epochal seconds 1577865600 through 1609487999 from
> > the record, come 1609488000.
> >
> > All in favor?
>
> Sadly, after the 1918-19 flu pandemic, they also "struck
> the epochal seconds from the record", but they did not
> recover the lost "files". No backups then or now.
>
> I just finished reading "American Pandemic: The Lost
> Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic", 2012, Nancy
> Bristow (U. Puget Sound). Not about the influenza virus
> (a dark unknown at that time), but about the 70% idiotic
> (and 30% heroic) ways citizens (and especially nurses)
> reacted to the disease, and treated the survivors.
>
.....
Found this a few weeks back on youtube about the same topic.
The 1918 Spanish Flu-A Conspiracy of Silence (1 of 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MHT5xTkL2g&t=504s
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