As young teen, living in Calif, had this flu for about 2 weeks. Could not even eat, tolerating only ginger ale. To this day can still remember how devastating it was.
did oyu guys go into a complete lockdown back then? how does the response the compare to the one now? do you agree with it?. sorry for all the questioning just trying to research.
@@jeffcelis3024 Lockdown??? Had never heard of such a thing..Just stayed home and in bed, never even went to a doc. Mother never got it tho, and Dad was away in the Navy somewhere.
Sorry to hear about that. Today they make it sound like the way the coronavirus can attack organs directly is something that’s never been seen before. That may be true in some ways but any sufficiently strong pathogen can leave survivors with lifelong health problems.
I am The senate I wouldn’t call this coronavirus wimpy. It has already killed more Americans than the Asian Flu did. But ask any virologist and he’d say he’d rather face this than a global influenza outbreak. My biggest pet peeve in all this is that some people downplay COVID-19 by saying it’s no worse than the flu. Some idiots have no clue how destructive the flu can be.
I also had this flu when I was five yrs old. All I remember is the fevers being so high that I had convulsions. My parents and the Dr thought I was going to die. I was sick for 2 weeks. Out of school for almost a month. I lost so much weight I looked like a skeleton. It took almost a year for me to fully recover. It was really a bad flu. We had two neighbor children that did die from it.
In 1957 the Asian Influenza came to visit Central NY. Reducing our Fourth Grade class down to 6 students. With our desks pulled together we kept working on our school work. Substitute Teachers came and went. We brought our lunches in a paper bag and shared our cookies. We were thankful the duck and cover drills were suspended. Then as the next couple of weeks passed the students returned and we returned to cafeteria lunches, followed by reconstituting our normal mob on the playground. People did their best, working together with out blaming the Village Mayor or anyone else for a Virus. All this in a time when the US population was about (174 million) 1/2 of today's (350 million) with a 1957 estimated 100, 000 Asian Flu deaths. Compared to US Corona's deaths of 72,285 to date. (that puts 1957 at 3 times today's death rate) Looking at past and present results it's becoming impossible to reconcile the media attacks as well as this political panic attack on leaders. In perspective they have done over and above any historical expectations. Never in the history of the World have Government leaders ever done so much so fast and so effectively to help keep their population safe. I'm embracing hope and faith, for all of us to keep our heads while supporting leaders that want to keep us safe. We have always had to deal with crisis and always a small portion of the population garners disproportionate attention. They have distorted representatives, often self centered misguided power grabbers. It is our job as citizens of a free society to recognize erroneous thinking. We will deal with them later. This is America, we have Constitutional remedies. Right now is the time to work together. In 1957 I was given a personal goal to respect authority and perform with integrity. In these troubled days, I like to remember if I choose to perform well today it allows me to feel good about myself tomorrow. Of course I'm also optimistic that as the hospital cares for my spouse during the next few weeks they allow me to visit sometime . How can I be angry about that.
My Dad and myself had this flu I was only 5 at the time and my mother recalled that she thought she would lose both of us it was that bad..... With this new pandemic at the moment( corona virus) I pray we come out of it soon ❤️🙏❤️STAY SAFE EVERYONE. ❤️🙏❤️
The seasonal flu doesn’t put the average person in bed for two weeks nor does it kill well over a million people around the world before it’s finished.
@@Wingnutcaseman I had it too, but I was living in Johannesburg South Africa at the time. My parents isolated me in my bedroom. They were the only two allowed to come in. I can remember my father visiting every evening with little treats, which I felt too sick to eat.
I was 20 in 1957. I did not know about the pandemic at the time as I did not take a newspapaer, no tv and only listened to music on the radio. I was sick but not bedridden. I must have passed it to a lot of people. Do not recall two roomates getting sick. My grandfather said he had the 1917 flu and his fever was extremely high. He blamed it for turning his hair white soon after. He was 37 at the time.
In China, supplies of influenza vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine for this fall and winter are currently very tight for reasons we all known. In some provinces, vaccines are beginning to be gradually distributed,and in others the vaccines are still being negotiated with the pharmaceutical companies. So that the community health agencies in those places can only continue to reassure the people who want to get the vaccine and have to wait a few more weeks.It's not too late, is it? Another published statistic is that in the first and second quarters of this year, the number of influenza cases in China was only one tenth of what it had been in the past because of prevention and containment measures for covid-19.I'm sure similar situations occur in other parts of the world. So, to alleviate the strain on the health care system, I hope that we will still protect ourselves, our family and friends, and our neighbors in as safe ways as possible during the upcoming fall and winter seasons so that the community can still have the spare capacity to assist more of those in need of protection.
It was worse than H1N1. COVID has already killed more Americans than the Asian Flu. It’s easily on pace to exceed the global death toll of 1-2 million as well.
![Approach to Objects by Psychotic Children [Silent] (University of London, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BipJuekq584/mqdefault.jpg)
A wise Spanish philosopher once said,
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
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As young teen, living in Calif, had this flu for about 2 weeks. Could not even eat, tolerating only ginger ale. To this day can still remember how devastating it was.
I had it in 57. My mother thought I was going to die.
he said "too sick to work" but not for Vaccine
;-)
did oyu guys go into a complete lockdown back then? how does the response the compare to the one now? do you agree with it?. sorry for all the questioning just trying to research.
@@jeffcelis3024 Lockdown??? Had never heard of such a thing..Just stayed home and in bed, never even went to a doc. Mother never got it tho, and Dad was away in the Navy somewhere.
@@charleneforrest9522 so you could say we are overreacting right now ?
My father was a medical researcher and was involved in research on the virus and the vaccination.
My Dad was 13 when he was infected. The accompanying inflammation damaged his heart. He died in 83 from heart failure when I was 10.
Sorry to hear about that. Today they make it sound like the way the coronavirus can attack organs directly is something that’s never been seen before. That may be true in some ways but any sufficiently strong pathogen can leave survivors with lifelong health problems.
I am The senate I wouldn’t call this coronavirus wimpy. It has already killed more Americans than the Asian Flu did. But ask any virologist and he’d say he’d rather face this than a global influenza outbreak. My biggest pet peeve in all this is that some people downplay COVID-19 by saying it’s no worse than the flu. Some idiots have no clue how destructive the flu can be.
Was he vaccinated
I also had this flu when I was five yrs old. All I remember is the fevers being so high that I had convulsions. My parents and the Dr thought I was going to die. I was sick for 2 weeks. Out of school for almost a month. I lost so much weight I looked like a skeleton. It took almost a year for me to fully recover. It was really a bad flu. We had two neighbor children that did die from it.
thank u for the info this will help me for my project regarding the pandemics back then.
In 1957 the Asian Influenza came to visit Central NY. Reducing our Fourth Grade class down to 6 students. With our desks pulled together we kept working on our school work. Substitute Teachers came and went. We brought our lunches in a paper bag and shared our cookies. We were thankful the duck and cover drills were suspended. Then as the next couple of weeks passed the students returned and we returned to cafeteria lunches, followed by reconstituting our normal mob on the playground.
People did their best, working together with out blaming the Village Mayor or anyone else for a Virus. All this in a time when the US population was about (174 million) 1/2 of today's (350 million) with a 1957 estimated 100, 000 Asian Flu deaths. Compared to US Corona's deaths of 72,285 to date. (that puts 1957 at 3 times today's death rate)
Looking at past and present results it's becoming impossible to reconcile the media attacks as well as this political panic attack on leaders. In perspective they have done over and above any historical expectations.
Never in the history of the World have Government leaders ever done so much so fast and so effectively to help keep their population safe. I'm embracing hope and faith, for all of us to keep our heads while supporting leaders that want to keep us safe.
We have always had to deal with crisis and always a small portion of the population garners disproportionate attention. They have distorted representatives, often self centered misguided power grabbers. It is our job as citizens of a free society to recognize erroneous thinking. We will deal with them later. This is America, we have Constitutional remedies. Right now is the time to work together.
In 1957 I was given a personal goal to respect authority and perform with integrity. In these troubled days, I like to remember if I choose to perform well today it allows me to feel good about myself tomorrow.
Of course I'm also optimistic that as the hospital cares for my spouse during the next few weeks they allow me to visit sometime . How can I be angry about that.
My sister and I caught this and we were really sick - I was 8 and she was 6 years old.
My grandfather passed away from this. He was from New York.
How old was he ?
😢😢 sad
was he vaxxed
My Dad and myself had this flu I was only 5 at the time and my mother recalled that she thought she would lose both of us it was that bad..... With this new pandemic at the moment( corona virus) I pray we come out of it soon ❤️🙏❤️STAY SAFE EVERYONE. ❤️🙏❤️
This Killed 4million people rip to all that parished from this disease.
@@ssg9offical I know it's a myth that the cronavirus is the most deadly influenza in 100 years
The thing is the vaccine has got to be SAFE... So rushing a bad one is as bad as us catching CORID19.. STAY SAFE 💙🙏💙
henrietta henson I heard there’s a possible vaccine they still don’t know but a HIV/AIDS medicine and something else killed it in a chamber
Me dad and another child were the only 2 children in school when this hit
I got the Asian flu in early '57 very sick for about 2 weeks I was 11 yrs old---
in winter, so ?
The seasonal flu doesn’t put the average person in bed for two weeks nor does it kill well over a million people around the world before it’s finished.
@@Wingnutcaseman I had it too, but I was living in Johannesburg South Africa at the time. My parents isolated me in my bedroom. They were the only two allowed to come in. I can remember my father visiting every evening with little treats, which I felt too sick to eat.
I got that flu almost killed me
What was the fear factor like back then as compare to what's happening now?
None
My mum died of this I was only 8months old, the UK
I’m sorry to hear that.
I was 20 in 1957. I did not know about the pandemic at the time as I did not take a newspapaer, no tv and only listened to music on the radio. I was sick but not bedridden. I must have passed it to a lot of people. Do not recall two roomates getting sick. My grandfather said he had the 1917 flu and his fever was extremely high. He blamed it for turning his hair white soon after. He was 37 at the time.
2020
In China, supplies of influenza vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine for this fall and winter are currently very tight for reasons we all known. In some provinces, vaccines are beginning to be gradually distributed,and in others the vaccines are still being negotiated with the pharmaceutical companies. So that the community health agencies in those places can only continue to reassure the people who want to get the vaccine and have to wait a few more weeks.It's not too late, is it?
Another published statistic is that in the first and second quarters of this year, the number of influenza cases in China was only one tenth of what it had been in the past because of prevention and containment measures for covid-19.I'm sure similar situations occur in other parts of the world.
So, to alleviate the strain on the health care system, I hope that we will still protect ourselves, our family and friends, and our neighbors in as safe ways as possible during the upcoming fall and winter seasons so that the community can still have the spare capacity to assist more of those in need of protection.
Wow just wow
"For the first time in history, we are forewarned of a possible epidemic!" 1957.
Is the Asian Flu worse then COVID and H1N1 or not as bad.
It was worse than H1N1. COVID has already killed more Americans than the Asian Flu. It’s easily on pace to exceed the global death toll of 1-2 million as well.
Wingnutcaseman So the Asian Flu is the second worst of the three.
I had the asiatic flu and I didn't even know they had a vaccination for it.
In fact there wasn't. It's fake. The asian was already become endemic before the vaccine
@@pierpaolobuzzi Thank you! My dad wouldn't let us get vaccinations as a child. My childhood was in the 50's.
I got that vaccine almost killed me
Was it free that time ??
There was nothing. It's fake. Asian was already become endemic when vaccine was done.
Ahann ok.
I might believe you sir/ma'am.
Because almost same kind of situation happened this time so yeah
But you have any proff for this or any kind of data or something or experience interview ?
Covid-19