Lesson from 1918 re: mask wearing.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

675,000 Americans died of Spanish flu. We're nearing 900,000 American deaths with Covid-19.

Was it the same stubborn/libertarian/anti-government streak? Are we less healthy than 100 years ago? The result of conspiracy theories overriding science? Or something else?

Maybe we should have thrown certain anti-science types into a for profit prison...

[pidge]

1. Actually we are doing better than 1918..the population was 1/3 of what is now.

[dpibel]

2. Then again

In 1918 there were no antivirals, no ventilators--very little of what we consider modern medicine.

So, sure. On a pure numbers comparison, the current pandemic isn't as deadly.

But I'm not sure that's the precisely correct comparison.

[Mariana]

3. Can you imagine what the death toll would look like

if we had 1918 medical knowledge and technology?

[appalachiablue]

4. K/R

[BlackSkimmer]

7. Enjoy your stay! nt

[phylny]

9. Do you think he/she will last 10 minutes?

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Lol, guess we got our answer!

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Someone needs to contact MIRT.

You’ve got a live one on your thread.

[phylny]

8. I alerted.

[BlackSkimmer]

10. Amazing, ain't it?

[Rhiannon12866]

13. MIRT can spot them when they first post, certainly spotted this one, but it's always good to alert

[Initech]

12. They had anti-vaxxers in the 1918 pandemic and in the 1790 pandemic.

But I'm sure nowhere near the level of stupid that we have now. The propaganda circulating on social media is quite insane.