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So these pictures are over 100 years old and they are a great look into the past. It was a horrible situation that pretty much nobody is still alive to talk about. The oldest living people in the world were children when it happened. I do not want to belittle the people that are in these pictures in any way, but, there are certainly some things we can see through a different lens today, especially going through social distancing and self quarantining. One advantage I feel we have is the ease with which new information or recommendations can be dispersed via digital communication.
Here is a link to the original article, and I am going to link a few of the pictures that struck me, with some commentary.
All credit to @Scoot26 for posting the article originally in another thread. I thought it deserved its own thread. Take a peek at the article and all of scary yet eerily similar pictures that can be found today.
Here is a link to the original article, and I am going to link a few of the pictures that struck me, with some commentary.
Photos of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months.
www.theatlantic.com
All credit to @Scoot26 for posting the article originally in another thread. I thought it deserved its own thread. Take a peek at the article and all of scary yet eerily similar pictures that can be found today.