The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in America | Struggle Against the Spanish Flu | Documentary
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In 1918-1919, the worst flu epidemic in recorded history killed an estimated 50 - 100 million people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was 675,000 - five times the number of U.S. soldiers died in World War I.
In the documentary we meet individuals who describe what it was like to live through the 1918 flu pandemic. Their experiences raise questions about the pandemic: Why did it infect so many people? Where did this lethal flu come from? How can we keep a pandemic like that from occurring again? The film follows the search for answers from an expedition to Alaska in 1951 to collect tissue from bodies buried in the permafrost, to the scientists and epidemiologists working on the same questions today. It explains the relevance of research into the 1918 pandemic to the threat of current and future flu pandemics.
Historical Background / Context:
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 - December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population).
Disease had already greatly limited life expectancy in the early twentieth century. A considerable spike occurred at the time of the pandemic, specifically the year 1918. Life expectancy in America dropped by about 12 years.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast, the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. Modern research, using virus taken from the bodies of frozen victims, has concluded that the virus causes cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). The strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.
Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the pandemic's geographic origin. It was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.
To maintain morale during World War I, censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States; but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII), creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit - thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish Flu.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in America | Struggle Against the Spanish Flu | Documentary
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In the late 1880’s 14:12 My Great Grandfather and Great grandmother left Missouri and became pioneers in Montana. A few years later my grandmother was born, their first born.
In 1917 my Great grandfather was killed in a tragic hunting accident. My great grandmother and my grandmother began raising the five other children. My Gran was 13 years old. The following year in 1918 my Great Grandmother died from the Spanish Flu. Then Gran was alone until she could get all the kids over to an Aunt living in Idaho. She was always my hero.
Hearing about how people pulled together to help in their communities is inspiring, but also makes me so sad. That is so different from what happened during recent years, when the pandemic brought about so much division among people.
There were conspiracy theorists and anti-maskers, quack medicine purveyors, all the modern nonsense, back then too.
The division was man-made, by terrifying people to avoid one another, quarantining HEALTHY people, and forcinjg USELESS masks on people.
That's really not true mostly we had people pulling together all around us it's just the news that is trying to tell you everyone is so divided I honestly think without the news we would all be much closer as people.
tRump ignited the mask/ vaccination resistance with his stupidity
@@Efhgi however...we do need the news...it may need to become less "biased"..but freedom of the press is very important for a free society...otherwise a tyrrant government can do bad things...and keep it's citizens ignorant of it...to prevent overthrow of the destructive government.
I was three during the 1957-58 pandemic. My parents, brother and sister were very sick. I never became ill. My mom would drag herself out of bed to check on my brother and sister. I was told that at one point I opened a can of peas and ate these. I basically just scavenged for food, ate cereal. I vaguely recall wearing the same pajamas for a week and being very dirty. I watched television all day and would fall asleep on the sofa. Eventually they all began to recover and I was given a good bath. My parents were immigrants living in Chicago and had no family in the city so we were on our own.
My great-great grandfather died from the flu in the summer of 1918 here in Vermont. He was 55 and had a twin brother who survived the illness and lived to see 1960!
I also have another great-great grandfather who died in late January, 1918 in Colorado Springs from some sort of illness of short duration. He had gotten sick in Kansas City according to surviving documents, while traveling from Philadelphia. Not sure if he would be counted with the 'official' numbers as he died so early in 1918, but cause of death was Pneumonia and tuberculosis. He was 53. His mother in law died from the flu in late April in New York City, age 79. There are more....goes to show you, just in one family. The 1918 pandemic killed millions worldwide. Even whole villages were wiped out.
My uncle died at 8 yr old in NW Pennsylvania . His parents and sister survived
My great great grandfather also died in 1918, although in his case he passed in late November of that year. However, nobody else in the family died from it. All of his kids, including my great grandfather, survived.
@@gatheringleaves ya it was kind of hit or miss in various parts of the country (and worldwide), though cities were naturally hit harder. Where were they (your grt-grandparents) from?
You could have symptoms in the morning and be dead by sundown. In Chicago, wagons came around and makeshift wooden coffins were left on the sidewalk according to how many were requested by each house every day. They were taken away and buried in mass graves. My dad lost several young siblings.
My mom's family caught it all at once. If the neighbors hadn't come over to bravely nurse them, they would have died.
My parents lived in New York in 1918 they had two baby girls who died because of the spanish flu, my mom never spoke of them the rest of her life. I tried to find where they were buried, but they were all buried in one grave. If my dad hadn,t told us kids we would never know of them.
😢 wow. So sad.
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My grandmother was one of the many orphaned by this tragic epidemic. Such a scary and sad time.
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In those years, many people had weak lungs due to rampant tuberculosis, poor working conditions in mills, mining, etc. These already weakened people who then caught the flu contributed to the high mortality rate.
My great grandmother that came here from Italy was only here for about 3 years and died in Nov 1918 from this flu. It's been told to us that she is buried in a mass grave in southern illinois.
Should have stayed in Italy maybe so very tragic 😢
I’m sorry that’s so sad. I never got to know my great grand parents either or my grandparents on one side. It sucks I know. Just knowing they never got to finish living their lives. 😢 may their memories be a blessing. ❤
My grandma vividly remembered at 8 years old a train going by adorned with black bunting. It was a train full of soldiers that had died of influenza and she remembered how quiet the depot became as the train passed by.
I recently asked my mother about this as my grandfather, her dad, would've been a very young man, around 18, at the time of the Spanish Flu being widespread. She told me that neither of her parents ever spoke about it, so she couldn't say what their experience might have been. I thought that was very sad as a piece of our family history was lost with my grandfather's passing many years ago.
My Grandmother died from this in 1918. My mother was only 14 months old. Mom never knew her mother. Most Americans have no idea how bad this was. They lived in rural Alabama and there was nothing that could be done. My mother lived into her 70's but she never forgot growing up without her mom. She was told by several of her friends that her mom died within a few days. Went from totally healthy to the grave in a matter of days. Really, really scary.
So sad. I am sorry for your loss. ✌
Tells u something about a virus as today the young dont get infected the virus is naturally made to kill of older people keeps population down clever
Started here in the US a soldier that was supposed to go to France in 1917 got crazy sick and had to be pulled from duty to get better and then it showed up in France and it wasn’t like the flu is now? It was very different, hemorrhagic
I note that during the 1918 influenza, hundreds of thousands of people, including vast numbers of women acting as nurses, showed levels of courage that have been almost totally absent during the covid19 pandemic -- and covid19 has not been nearly so dangerous as the 1918 influenza. The mass terror and cowardice displayed during covid have been disgusting.
I totally agree with you. One third of the global population died from the Spanish flu. People basically died of pneumonia from the Spanish flu-young people. Many politicians and mainstream media are trying to tout Covid-19 as worse. The fearmongering is insane. America showed awesome bravery in the early 1900s. It's such a shame to see how things have become since then. :'(
the courage you are looking for exists in all of the healthcare workers and emergency responders around the world
Women has little choice. There were not enough healthcare workers, one reason being so many docs had gone overseas to help our soldiers during WWI. There was NOT a lot of "cowardice" shown during covid. You could bring people stuff they needed right to their door. If they got too sick to stay home, you were not going to help them by nursing them yourself. Your job was to call an ambulance. And mass terror? I think mass common sense is a better description for the behavior of those who wore a mask and avoided unnecessary crowds. Doesn't matter if today there are some studies debunking the efficacy of a mask. Back then a mask was a noble effort to keep more people from dying. Refrigerated trucks had to park in front of the hospitals. And I have read the details of a few anti mask studies. The study populations were limited (homogenous, not varied) and those study results cannot be extrapolated to others. But I hope they continue to study mask effectiveness so we know one way or the other and stop arguing about it. I
@@melissahahn4779 Are you referring to healthcare workers dealing with covid? If so, give me a break. Covid had a case fatality rate of around 0.97%, and almost everyone who died from covid were very old and very co-morbid.
@@patriciajump9511 If you think that people acted courageously during covid, which had a case fatality rate of 0.97%, almost exclusively affecting very old, very comorbid people, and when about 40% of the population was swept up in mass-formation psychosis, then you have a very peculiar definition of courage. As for masks, see the Cochrane Review of January 30, 2023. That is as definitive a report as you are going to get.
My great grandfather talked about it with my dad. He was born in 1899 so he was young still. Guess everybody had somebody die of it here. It was extremely bad.
Crazy how underemphasized this is in history.
I think it was so awful everyone just wanted to forget about it
Yes, and equally how CV-19 is way over emphasized.
@@songsabai3794 They said the same thing about when the 1918 Influenza Pandemic was rampaging. What's Past is Prologue.
I don't believe it is underemphasized. Perhaps, your particular circles and education were simply the ones under- emphasizing it? This has common knowledge and education in my schooling.
You can read the papers back then. It was not headline news. I think it comes up in a manner more comparable to the odd times when locusts appear seemingly out of nowhere. You can't predict it or stop it but you can expect it.
My Grandmother was a teenager during this. She was scared to death of the flu or a virus. Her Father donated land to open a new cemetery and this was in Eastern Ky. They were isolated and it still killed cartloads of people. Wagons came and went. I live in Louisville kids are out congregating and not distancing. They had to close the parks.
Saw a lot of kids completely ignoring social distancing. Finally after the direction for everyone to stay home did they get the point were not messing around.
Thank you to the elders who gave permission.
People dont take flu seriously i know i used to be one of them until 4july1997 i caught the flu ended up in a coma after encephalitus on life support and am now a epleptic needless to say i fear the flu to this day
So sorry that happened but happy that you endured and still here with us ❤
Who else came here because of the 2020 Corona virus?
scary isn’t it?
My family always talk about the "next" flu, and the conditions in which another outbreak like the 1918 flu could occur. That's why I take them all seriously, because the Coronavirus is mild now, but from what I understand, so was the first wave of the 1918 flu before it struck again 6 months later.
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Me this is a fascinating story. Now it is happening again. Many people are not heeding the warnings.
Amazing. Same thing all over again and this documentary has Dr. Fauci on it! Screwed because the current White House cut the funding in 2016.
My maternal 2nd great-grand- parents lived in small town in the country and somehow came in contact with this deadly flu.
There was no medicine available to treat the 1918 flu. My grand-
mother told me all the doctor
could offer was cough syrup
as he traveled through the community. My Shamer/Taylor great-grandparents died
within one hour of each other.
Amazingly, their children did not catch the flu.
May they Rest In Peace.
..and few years later....BOOM again !!Over 4.3 million victims worldwide..! every medical system collapsed ,we didn t learn anything ..once again!!
Great job in your documentary 👏
It’s infuriating that the US repeated the same mistakes and did not learn from this pandemic. They are so much alike.
We never learn...
Oh please
This one won’t ever go away.. not really very alike in my opinion
@@BrandyTexas214 The Spanish flu never went away either. It mutated and because endemic. Which is the seasonal flu we see every year.
But it still could have been prevented if leadership would have been proactive as opposed to reactive.
@@Pari_Pixie right, like when biden claimed halting flights from China was xenophobic or when faucci in March 2020 did an interview where he laughed about the idea of us all wearing masks.. .. pretty sure the Spanish flu isn’t similar to covid but you do you I guess.. I also like how nobody is curious about where this came from or if it was an accident.. it came from a Chinese lab and nobody cares, I bet you think it came from a bat.. have a nice day
Sars have been around forever but when she is angry watch out.
History repeats some learn others refuse to learn.
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The high death rates in young, healthy adults from the 1918 'flu were due to the hosts' equally strong immune systems. Their antibodies and especially white blood cells flooded the lungs (where most took in the 1918 virus), and patients began at first to rally. But the virus would outpace the immune cells, killing them at extraordinary rates, and patients would literally suffocate or drown in the litter of their own failed immune response.
This is what I heard on a 2018 review of a book on this horrible plague and it struck me and stayed with me.
I had a special interest bc my grandfather's father and brother died of the flu as the family was travelling west in a covered wagon to Montana. He was 9 at the time and when he recovered, his mother said, "Carl, you're the man of the family now."
He eventually raised a family near Flathead Lake. I occasionallywould visit Kalispell from the CA desert as a child. When I knew him he had Parkinson's Disease, which has been medically connected with the 1918 flu.
I wonder what will happen in 2020.
A lot of deaths were due to never being exposed to both the h1 and n1...a lot had been exposed to one or the other..thus setting up the response u mentioned...my bejing biden is setting in...it was called cytokine swarm...covid gets it too.
In one of my Great Flu books, there's a side by side comparison of healthy and flu ravaged lungs. One looks like a picture of a rain forest; the other looks like a totally eroded hillside, barren and ravaged. That was caused by the flu itself.
God, to hear it from the survivors themselves...it’s heartbreaking.
My great grandfather on my mother's side survived the Spanish Flu. He was stationed in Bosnia at the time that the Epidemic was raging at the tail end of World War I. He lived to see the end of the war. Despite contracting the disease, he was a lucky man considering how the Flu killed so many young and healthy adults.
My grandpa’s aunt got the Spanish influenza when she went up to Montana to see my newborn grandfather. She died from the influenza a few days after she back to her home in Texas. My grandfather died from a stroke at the age of 89 in March of 2008.
I'm glad he survived!!❤️
Bosnia/Serbia/Yugoslavia also suffered greatly from the typhus epidemic of 1915-16. It was a horrible time; 1 in 4 Serbians died during the war.
This is the 3rd time I've watched this documentary. Once before Covid-19 was part of our lives and twice thereafter
It is amazing to me that we got so lucky with Covid-19 being so mild, because apparently, people and government officials repeated exactly the same mistakes as during the 1918 pandemic - refusing to wear masks and avoid public gatherings. I am reading the book The Great Influenza by John Barry and he says that the vast majority of the estimated 50 million deaths worldwide in the 1918 pandemic occurred within a 10 week period in late 1918. And experts think 50 million is low, some say it could have been as high as 100 million worldwide.
Yes I’m here because of corona. Anybody else?
History is repeating itself
Yes
YES!!
@@bubblybubbles4023 Every 100 years!!
School project - what developments emerged as a result of the Spanish flu
My Father's brother, only sibling, died. He was only 10 years old.
Next generation will take our interview 😅
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My grandfather was about 9 then in Minneapolis. He said everything in the city shut down for 2 weeks. 2 of the boys he played w/ on the street died & when school started again the halls were much emptier
This is an a terrific doc.
This should of proved that we are all EQUAL. WE ALL SUFFERED THE SAME, WE DIED THE SAME AND WE RECOVERED TOGETHER.
Thank you, now I understand more about COVID and why vaccines were developed so fast
Thank You, I had to watch this for class and the original website no longer had it!
my grandmother lost her young brother due this flu, he was 16 years old, she herself did not get it, one gets it and die and some people where not effected , and then you see young people die because they have a strong immuunsystem and people like my grandmother she lived to be a 100, blessed her, been true all the wars and other pandemics ,
we owe are ancestors alot they survived most diseases than were immune to today
I am here as well as what is going on, from London Ontario. In 1918 my friend had a grandmother in Poland . She had 17 children. In one week 11 of her children died. How awful it must have been .
Thanks for this.
Very..very good documentary....Thank you for posting..learned a lot..
I would have been terrified growing up in this time era. Influenza is no joke.
That particular strain kills by using the immune system against it's own body. It's still no joke. We now have cytokine inhibitor medication that could reduce the death rate, possibly drastically, but up until that invention, there would have been nothing anyone could do. Staying "warm and well nourished" would probably kill you even faster.
Ikr this is scary
Whenever the window or door was opened , the reaper was waiting for the opportunity to sneak in. It’s beyond my comprehension how terrifying and unsettling it must have been during 1918.
@mad ass
Not against Spanish flu. A strong immune response was the leading cause of death. Cooling the body off may have been a better choice, actually.
But idk, there's not much that can be done without modern medicine. Imagine a canker sore. Now imagine a million of them on your organs. That's what a cytokine storm is.
are you alive in 2020?
My father was born 9 March 1919. He survived the Influenza pandemic(1918-1919), married my mother 16 April 1952 and they had one son two years later. College educated were both of my parents.
1918...... living in remote northern Alberta Canada; my grandmother, aged 7 years old, woke up one morning to find her whole family, except for her brother deceased. At that point in history Alberta was a province of 500,000. This pandemic infected 30,000 and killed 4000 in a very remote part of the planet at that time. This province is 10 times that population now and not as isolated as it was 100 years ago. I am seeing that Covid -19 is potentially just as deadly; if not more. Using my topical demographic as a gauge, this area itself could possibly face 10 times the disaster of 1918. There are single cities in this world that have a larger populations than this massive land mass I call home. The numbers could become staggering worldwide. please take this one seriously folks. If you're not, my grandmother would sure tell you different.
Exactly isolated like my Grandparents on a mountain. They never got around people. Just woke up sick too or died.
I'm sorry to hear that My grandma never let us forget how serious these situations are I'm a little taken back on how some folks are treating this with very little concern or care.
Your comment makes me so sad, that must have been so awful for your grandmother-poor lady.
Worldwide we lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people on the globe due to the Spanish flu. America's population at that time was 103,000,000, so the gobal death rate was about the size of America, or at least half of America, depending on the true numbers. So very sad. A third of the globe's population died-it's so sad to think about.
I had a great uncle that was in the military and died of the Spanish flu. He was my grandmother's brother.
Such a great documentary, in particular because people who lived through it could share their experiences. Through them, we even learn about unsung heroes and heroines like Mrs. Thornton, who visited the sick and their families in their quarantined homes. I’m here because of the pandemic: when it killed her parents, my orphaned grandmother and her siblings were farmed out to various relations, and it was this status as dependent that pushed her to marry my grandfather at the first opportunity, in her teens.
look at us now love
so herioc and brave and rightous YES!! ⛏⛏🪓🪓
my great grandfather was a physician and many lives during the pandemic, his name was John smith Barton
Saved many luves
In the midst of Covid 19 pandemic sweeping the globe at this time just watched this documentary. It’s a very informative video. Hope the Coronavirus is also over soon. Stay safe everyone!
My Grandpa was in the WW1 Grandma told me all about the Flu. I grew up next to our town cemitary you could see how hard our town was hit. Many many graves , we herd all about it, lots of people called it la gripe. I wonder what my mom, grandma would say about what's going on. I'm going to be 70 this year. I saw my daughter after many months of not seeing her and daughters. In our family 2adult daughter's, 1sister inlaw had it. My husbands ex sister in-law died from it. It's 2021 people were getting sick in 2019 .
Never gonna be over
Covid still exists but alot of people have moved on with there life
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277 When there are vaccines and medicines such as Plaxavoid that keeps one from dying people do tend to move on from a deadly virus no matter how much ignorance is bliss for some people.
COVID is manmade and bullshite!
Man....this needs updating
very interesting timing of this video
It'll be year 2080 and my grand kids will be watching a doc on covid, juts like I'm watching this.
Yes, and we can tell them stories about these times, if we survive that long
I had no idea..😢50 million people? OMG...so sad
What a magnificent medical team! They are heroes,no matter the outcome. 🙏🏻
It’s still with us today. That’s why people who’ve had a cursory glance at virology knows that it never will. We manage freedom with a public policy of prevention.
The symptoms that the 1918-1919 were, bad cough, shortness of breath, sinus congestion, sneezing, runny nose, very high fever, chills, bodyaches, weakness, fatigue, stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and muscle aches. In 2009, these symptoms were the same. Most of the people that died were people in their 20s, 30s and 40s in 1918, the same in 2009.
My dad never knew his father because this flu took him grandmom had the children there but they do dnt get it. I heard it was so bad. They couldn’t bury them fast enough. 3:48
My great grandfather, his brother and my great grandfathers 3 month old son all died within a week of each other, Nov, Dec 1918.
Tragic...so sad.
Did any females of the family get it?
My grandfather was born in 1908 he was the only member of his family that didn't get sick he helped them all get well.
There were a few doctors during both the Spanish flu and the recent Covid 19 flu that said, wearing a mask was like trying to keep dust out with chicken wire. That's quite profound and probably the reason there were so many fatalities. Your only defense was extreme social distancing.
You must include the Sea-Blockade where millions starved to death. Those deaths may be included in the death-toll 1919. The war caused starvation and disease as well.
Covid-Lock Down did the same. It was one of the largest Sea-blockades in history the USA has declared under Covid.
When Hospitals shut down, more people will suffer.
Ya, well they were ignoring the fact that Covid is airborne and spread by *droplets* which are larger than "chicken wire" to use your dumb analogy.
It’s like we make the same mistakes over and over again. If we had just shut down everything except key industries for a few weeks , we could’ve severely limited Covid-19.
Literally. My partner at the time and I used to spend the nights in the early pandemic talking about what could stop this. I always said full shut down. State sponsored. Foodstuffs supplied. Necessary household items provided. Hotels opened up and subsidized to singularly room/house the indigent population during the shutdown. honestly it could have been done and we’d have been fine within a few months. But nooooo. “Mah rhiiiiightssss!!!!”
This is some scary stuff
This says that 675,000 died in the USA then. We'll see what the COVID total ends up being...but I suspect it will surpass that, since at the time I'm writing this in March 2021 it's over 500,000.
My mother-in-law was young girl during the pandemic. She remembered the local grocery only had one apple for sale.
I'm surprised there aren't more recent views and comments, considering the horror of the CoronaVirus facing us
Indeed.
And..it is growing worse!!
the horror is the takeover of tyranny and all the lies.
“Horror” 😂
And it's still going on in 2024 Ive had it for a month now .if they cured anything they wouldn't make any money from the poor and small minded people
Tough people in those days.
Does anyone know what year these interviews took place?
My husband's grandfather was left orphaned by the Spanish influenza.
It’s crazy that it’s STILL called SPANISH influenza when it has since been proved that it began in America and spread to Europe with American soldiers on troop ships.
American soldiers were dying from it on board ship before they even reached European shores.
One captain wrote that he was panicking because halfway across the Atlantic he didn’t have space onboard to store all the corpses.
In 1918, my Grandmother and two uncles moved from Pennsylvania to Temecula California. All of them caught the flu, but both of my teenage uncles passed.
How I wonder, what would the ones speaking in the dcumentary react to our current situation facing covid19. How the documentary clearly said to be prepared despite the h1n1 virus during the time this video was made in comparison to what we have now. We're a bit like the 1918 pandemic, clueless what hit us.
I mean Fauchie was in it so he probably ate his hate on a couple things lol
That which doesn’t kill you, mutates and tries again.
History repeats every 100 years. So does ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance and stupidity repeat a whole lot more frequently, I'm afraid.
People remember World War I better than this event, but the 1918-1919 "Spanish" Flu killed two to three times (at least) than all war related deaths. The war was a huge contributing factor, because of the huge numbers of troops being ferried to Europe. Then we had the fact it was everywhere around the globe, killing huge swaths of people. The other super strange factor was those most likely to die, those between 20 - 40, the exact opposite of all influenza deaths throughout history before or since. I had the flu in the 1976 pandemic, which was just a minor thing compared to 1918, but it ruined my trip to Washington, DC with my grandmother.
Is the narrator S. Epatha Merkerson? Sure sounds like her.
Seeing that Anthony Fauci made me cringe and swear. He was the source of so much misinformation throughout his way too long career. Mr. "Masks were bad in 1918 but good in 2020." The biggest quack in all of history. AZT was his first crime.
Does anyone remember the flu commercial that came out around 2010 about another pandemic was going to happen again? I can't remember who put that commercial out and I can't find it online.
There is an old cemetery on an old dirt road down here in rural Alabama. My husband and I stopped there one afternoon and walked around just to see the grave markers and names. I noticed 1 family husband & wife were buried together and going out from each side were their children. There were at least 5 children that died in 1918 & I wondered what happened. Now I see.
Who else is like 😬😬😬😬 when they notice the COVID parallels?
How different this documentary is from the recent DW/French documentary on the same subject. This one, produced in 2014, and the DW, produced in 2022.
In 2014 there is the proclivity of claims of isolation out of fear and via government order. However the 2022 documentary states there was no such thing. No social distancing, no masks, etc. Pure politics to justify, in my opinion, the oppressive nature of government during the Covid-19, Wuhan pandemic.
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Cytokines storm worse in Young with strong immune ststems
Propheitc. Flash forward to 2020 and young people with no apparent health issues were succumbing to covid-19. They started having fewer deaths in the 2020 pandemic when they learned how to limit the cytokine storm in hospitalized cases.
This exact flu strain, H1N1 in 1918, came back in 2009. It spread even faster than in 2018 because of air travel. However, because of advanced medical technology, the death toll was a lot less than in 1918. Still, this pandemic killed nearly 1 million worldwide. A vaccine against this strain came out which prevented the pandemic from getting worse. It ended in late 2010.
I know this is unrelated, but if anyone here watched Chicago med, I'm pretty sure the woman speaking is Mrs. Goodwin!
S. Epatha Merkerson, from Law & Order, the narrator - is that who you’re referring to?
Good thing the world's greatest scientific minds spent the decade preparing and not ruthlessly inventing industrial scale killing techniques. Oh wait, I'm being told they did.
I wonder what those folk back in 1918 would have given for a vaccine.
Both my grandparents died in 1918. My father was barely one. Two sisters took him and my uncle and raised them although they had grown brothers and sisters. Ive never understood that. I've asked the family, but no one has an answer. He didn't find his siblings until he was grown. We have a different last name from the other cousins.
Me great granny survived the Spanish flu. She drank mint and sage cloves tea
This killed my Great Grandmother. 1918
Omg this is soooo slow moving!! This did NOT need to be an hour long.
lol i put the playback speed to 1.5
and here we are back again... 100 years later..... did we learn something ??
no because they closed for 2 or 3 weeks! covid is a political tool
@@xdsmastermia bro you can just say you didn't learn anything and go, its ok
Like what, exactly? How to magically avoid pandemics which occur fairly regularly despite our best efforts? You can't escape biology, reality, and viruses. The current coronavirus is nothing like easily isolated viruses like Ebola (which are deadly but not widespread). This current virus is not extremely deadly but because of this, it is inevitable to be widespread and uncontrolled. It sucks but that's reality.
@@xdsmastermiacovid itself is a biological weapon created by communist china it is used to flio the balance of power in the world
Had the flu last year. Awful. Turned into pneumonia. Get a flu shot. Wash your hands. Disinfect doorknobs, phones,switches, remotes...
IM SCARED NOW WTF. Had to watch this for school :(
Well their objective has worked hasn't it designed fear considering the Spanish flu was caused by service men receiving vaccines and spreading it to others on their return
Which grade are you in?
How you feeling now? 😂😂😂
Rip to everyone that died
My grandfather's first wife died in 1918 leaving a baby behind.
When was this documentary made?
at least sometime after 2003
never mind, i found the correct date to be 2009 52:49
I heard about this from Adam knows everything
This was a real pandemic unlike the over done and egregious way the COVID mini outbreak was treated we are still living with poor decisions made a few years ago my great grandmother died in 1918 outbreak my grandmother was a year old people don't realize bodies were piled in the streets I didn't see that during last supposed outbreak
So sad😢
I just got diagnosed with influenza b yesterday sept 12 and am the first case in my county
Paige 1996 r u ok
Roxana Fuentes so nice of you to ask! Yes I’m all better now! The antibiotics kicked it’s butt thankfully! I appreciate your concern! ❤️❤️
@@9622paige Good to hear
Antibiotics against a virus, are you kidding me M8?
@@TheAncientPowersruses can cause infection in the sinuses,throat and lungs so yea antibiotics are your m8 when that happens and influenza b mostly infects the young who are more prone to bacterial infections afterwards so why not? Didn’t penicillin save us?